Horten 229: What is real, what is exaggeration?

[Stephan Wilkinson]

Its stability/controllability problems seem to be a characteristic of a pure all-wing design.

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).

Was there more in the way of stability problems? Of course all of the stuff I've read based on interviews with the Hortens, largely by David Myhra (who seems to have made an entire career out of writing about the Hortens), professes that the Horten wings flew perfectly.

Being a pilot, I do understand the need for SAS and/or vertical surfaces on a flying wing, but all of the Horten fanboys seem to think those airplanes were vice-free...