William Horton Wingless Plane 1952 test flight pictorial Flying Wing

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William Horton Wingless Plane 1952 test flight pictorial Flying Wing
William Horton Wingless Plane 1952 test flight pictorial Flying Wing
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“Clipped Plane Has Retractable Wings”. A look at the Horton Wingless aircraft at its test Flight.
"The Horton Wingless aircraft was invented by William Horton of Huntington Beach, California. He called the plane “wingless” because he claimed the entire craft was a simple airfoil with vertical fins and utilized all surfaces for lift. Unfortunately, Horton did not have the money to develop it, but was able to get into a partnership with billionaire Howard Hughes and Harlow Curtiss.
The plane was test-flown but the venture failed ...not because the airplane didn't fly, but because Hughes wanted to take full credit for the patents and production rights, which Horton refused to allow. Hughes sued Horton which effectively stopped any further development of the aircraft.\r\rHughes managed to have the prototype and partially-constructed production version destroyed. One aspect of the lawsuit was a statement that the aircraft could not fly, which witnesses, photographs and video obviously show not to be true. At one point, Horton served jail time for selling stock in a company for an airplane that "couldn't fly" and had several violent confrontations with people associated with Hughes and Curtiss because of the law suit and resulting injunctions".
This is an original 2 page magazine article from 1952
Pages measure 6 1/2" x 9".
We do not photocopy these.
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