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Horten 229 Fighter/Bomber

GT182

GT182

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Just found this thru MSNdotcom. Link is to National Geographic site. We don't get the the National Geographic Channel so I've missed this show.... darn it!

Looks like Germany was "unknowingly?" the first for stealth fighters back in WWII, besides building the first operational jet, the Me-262. The only surviving Horten 229 is the V3, which is held in storage in the Smithsonian’s Paul. E. Garber facility.

Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.c...rview26#tab-story-behind-story-hitler-stealth

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/hitler-s-stealth-fighter-3942/Overview

The Ho-229 had a plywood veneer skin, no tail, and hidden jet engines... the precursor to stealth technology. A flying wing.
 
Yes. The 229 was an amazing, advanced fighter, well beyond its time in technology.

Recently, one of the huge aerospace firms built an original from scratch, though on closer look to the photos, it looks like a basic mockup and not a huge endeavor. What they did was run a ton of radar tests to see just exactly how radar stealth it really was, and it was indeed quite invisible to a certain degree which is incredible for WWII technology. The idea they think is that a group of these things could have flown over the English Channel, close to the water (12 feet or so) under radar and make a raid inland on England.


Did you know, on the first day it was tested in front of Goering, that one engine flamed out, and caused the sleek wing to do a curved turn the entire time it was being flown and Goering never knew it? At that moment when the fighter was in flight, he ordered its production. Luckily, the fighter was able to be landed without mishap on one Jumo turbine.



Bill
 
I'm sure the Horton bros thought of themselves as the Wrights 2.0 cuz they focused on that that flying wing style just like Northrup and used their political connections to get subsidized and boom - just doing it for the wrong side...
 
They were sure good at wings.. Thats for sure.

That was only one design of many. They had one that even today looks like a UFO.
 
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