Northrup builds Horton 229

[FengZ]

Skyunlimited's version is pretty cool. The VC and over-all system simulation is pretty simple, but she's still fun to fly.

-feng

 

[Lionheart]

Yep! Their Gotha / Horton is BRILLIANT! I love that thing.

Wild spoiler in the back bottom. Just a huge plate that slides down.

With turbines off, I'll bet that thing was a fantastic glider...



Bill

 

[Willy]

The real cockpit probably was pretty simple too.

 

[Allen]

The German jet cockpits were pretty simple. Layout was quite good.

 

[n4gix]

But, did the Horton hear a Who? :ernae:

 

[Toastmaker]

The CFS3 version is quite fast but with surprisingly poor maneuverablility at lower speeds (< 250). It's not a dogfighter, that's for sure.

 

[TeaSea]

The Horton and other productions were really fascinating and of course the Soviets, the British and the Americans all made use of the technological research....

but in the end, all this research was for naught.

The front line fighter at the end of the war for the Luftwaffe was still the BF-109 (mid-1930's technology) only supplemented by the FW-190. The fighter they started the war with.

Sure, the Germans fielded the ME-262, whose engines had to be replaced after only a few hours operation....

And the Komet, which probably killed more of it's own pilots than the USAAF and RAF did.

The U.S. had the P-51, the P-47, the P-38, the F6F, the F8F and the first P-80's were rolling off the line (accepted early in 1945, but not getting into theater before the end of the war).

The Brits had the MK 22/22/23's Spitfires, The Spiteful, the Hawker Typhoon, The Meteor and the Vampire (the latter two entering too late for much of an active roll).

Point being, much is made of all the "Luftwaffe secret wonder weapons" of WWII and how they could have changed the outcome....

Sorry, I don't see it. The Nazi's were too inherently corrupt to allow any sort of decent development.

I love these kinds of discussions though...because no one is ever really wrong, and no one is ever really right....:ernae:

 

[Terry]

Photos of the Northrop Horton mockup in it's new home at San Diego Air and Space Museum. There is a lack of floor space so it was hung where there is very poor lighting which is why the photos are poor.
The Vega is the one used in the movie "Amelia".

 

[Lionus]

http://www.youtube.com/user/TsarHD#p/c/463E6E278C9B8AB1/0/Z07Kt4pjh04

there, he has the show uploaded in five parts

 

[Bjoern]

Even today (think B2), just about every bit of post-WW2 aerospace endeavour, including Soyuz and the Apollo moonshots, can be traced back to mid-'40s German technology.

That's why I ask everyone who calls BS on the moon landings why he doesn't trust in german engineers.

The front line fighter at the end of the war for the Luftwaffe was still the BF-109 (mid-1930's technology)

Mid-1930s design, not technology.

Apart from the basic shape there's not that much that a Bf-109E-3 and -K-4 have in common. Same for the Spitfire.

I bet the Luftwaffe could have had operational 262 by mid-1943 if it hadn't been for the idiots in the high ranking positions.



- Edit: By the way...it's Northrop and Horten! Geez...

 

[CWOJackson]

The existence of a new secret plane photographed this week has been confirmed by the United States Air Force. The secret aircraft now has an official denomination: The RQ-170 Sentinel, a flying wing developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works.

The RQ-170 is a stealthy unmanned aircraft designed to "provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces." It's flown by the 30th Reconnaissance Squadron at Tonopah Test Range, Nevada, under the Air Combat Command's 432d Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.


The aircraft has a 65-foot wingspan, with a fat body and a blended wing design. It's unarmed, and—according to David A. Fulghum at Ares—its light color is unusual for high altitude UAV. [Ares]


http://gizmodo.com/5419363/usaf-confirms-new-secret-stealth-plane

 

[thedude247]

Too bad this replica isn't a flying version, that would be a real treat.