The Horton Lifting Body

The HORTON "Lifting Body"

In the boom times that followed the Second World War, an aircraft designer named Bill Horton built and flew at least one prototype of a wingless "lifting body" aircraft. It was built in partnership with Hughes Aircraft.

Horton's designs did attract a lot of press at the time, as exemplified by this cover from "Science & Mechanics" Magazine *

Unfortunately, a falling out with Howard Hughes, his sponsor, brought an end to the development of his designs.

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David Dodge offers a website that contains a variety of magnificent images and information about unusual aircraft.

The site is called "Twin Pushers and Other Free Flight Oddities" and information on the "Horton" is found in that site on the page -

home.att.net/~dannysoar/Horton.htm
Additional photos of a Horton Lifting Body design from a book by Peter Bowers are to be found at a site provided by "The Wing Is The Thing" (TWITT). Andy Kecskes is President of that organization at P.O. Box 20430, El Cajon, CA 92021. His email address is twitt@pobox.com

http://www.twitt.org/wingless.htm

This second image shown here is from a 1960's catalogue issued to promote "Horton Wingless Aircraft". However the design shown in this picture was a concept only, and was never built or flown.

*Read the last line of the caption of the magazine cover again.

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