Originally Posted by
Harley Quinn
Operation Paperclip was intended to gather up as much intelligence as possible from the wreckage of the Reich: obvious example is von Braun and his team. Surprised Jack Northrop didn't seem to take any interest.
The Horten flying wings were aerodynamically very far ahead of the Northrop (and everyone elses) wings. Probably would have just hurt their egos! Unless you go read the books and interpret the data (if there's any left) you wouldn't know - because they were the losers (one of the brothers was pretty hardcore NSDP so that didn't help, but its how they managed to get the attention of the hierarchy and then the resources the other needed to build the aircraft). The RAF got one of the Horten prone position gliders.