[Catfish]

Thanks for posting, yes it is fascinating stuff.
The Horten brothers developed their project as a glider, eliminating all spoiling surfaces and trying to get the plane flying as good-mooded and forgiving as possible. It was still able to make sudden breaks and "impossible" moves, much more responsive than e.g. the ME 262. It was also much smaller than it mostly looks, on those pictures. None of them became operative.
Germany was aware of the advantages of radar non-reflecting surfaces, since the Mosquitoes only showed a faint echo on the radar screens of the time, in comparison to e.g. a well-lit Spitfire fighter.


(OT, but just read Galland's "The first and the last": Strategically it was the wrong decision for Germany to continue to build bombers like the JU 88, 188, 288, 388, the Heinkel "Uhu" and so forth, or convert fighters to bombers, like done with the ME 262 (and like intended with the Horten/Go conversion). And, as Adolf Galland put it, too little, too late. Even after 1943 and the first heavy bombardment of Hamburg with 35.000 civilian casualties, Hitler and Goering still set priorities for aggressivity and bombing attacks, instead of putting up a better defence. Had the german fighter arm used all their planes and pilots to counter the bomber streams at that time, bomber casualties would have been too high for the allies. The german fighter production reached its peak in the fall of 1944, against all allied predictions, and actions. But they were used for useless bombing action, and manned with young and inexperienced pilots.

It is also clear by now, that the british indiscriminate carpet area bombardments did not interrupt arms production, nor did it break civilian will. It was the industry targets bombed by the US air force at daylight, that finally did that. Especially of course, when new allied fighters were able to accompany the bombers to their targets. When fuel depots and refineries became a higher priority on the bombing list, the german fighter arm collapsed within weeks.
If the Heinkel, Messerschmidt and "Gotha" jets would have been given priority and not been modified for bombing, allied air superiority would most probably not have been established. "Had", "if", and "but", those poor devils).