Like most of the Nazi aircraft built toward the end of the war, it was primarily made of plywood with a welded tubular steel frame. The retractable nose wheel was actually the TAIL wheel taken from a scrapped bomber.. The main landing gear was 'fixed' to create the aerodynamical drag of the missing engines.
During WWII the Germans were busy developing new and better aircraft. Powered with the new jet engine the flying wing was a perfect configuration and the HO-IX V1 was built as the test bed for the

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