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Horten Ho-229 (the designations used are also Horten Ho IX or Gotha Go-229) is a German, twin-engine, jet fighter-bomber with a flying wing arrangement from the end of World War II. In cooperation with the Luftwaffe Sonderkommando 9 experimental center, in 1942 a project of the Ho-IX fighter plane with a flying wing system powered by two BMW 003A-1 jet engines was created. The construction of the V1 and V2 prototypes started soon and were completed in 1942. Problems with the BMW engine meant that the first Ho-IX V1 prototype was flown as a glider in the summer of that year, without engines and with a fixed front landing gear. However, the second prototype, the Ho-IX V2, was redesigned and equipped with Jumo 004 B-1 engines (2x8.5 kN). The flight tests with these engines began in January 1945. The plane