Horten 229: What is real, what is exaggeration?

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Stephan Wilkinson

Nick, that's interesting. Did the Horten have stability/control problems? All I was aware of was the hunting and Dutch roll tendency that would have made it a terrible gun platform (or precision bomber).

It was just something I read after seeing the programme (which I think mentioned a stability problem but not any remedy). The "infallible" Wikipedia: "The H.IX V2 reportedly displayed very good handling qualities, with only moderate lateral instability (a typical deficiency of tailless aircraft)." The same source talks about stability problems on the Northrop bombers which it was hoped, in 1950, to overcome with a new model of autopilot.