More than fourty years after the Horten IV, the members of the Academic Flying Group in Braunschweig began to use the flying wing design again, however with new materials and new laminar profiles. They wanted to find out if the performance of gliders could be improved by means of this design. The specimen was designed, built and tested by students, members of the Academic Flying Group Braunschweig. The maiden flight on 18 March 1988 was followed by two years of flight testing. The aircraft participated in several contests. Its last flight took place in 2000.