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R33_GTS-t · 3rd July 2009, 08:51 AM

The US? Maybe, or maybe they just perfected a design.

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Hitler's Stealth Fighter - Horten 229

Called the Horten 229, the radical "flying wing" fighter-bomber looked and acted a lot like the U.S. Air Force's current B-2 — right down to the "stealth" radar-evading characteristics.

Fortunately for the world, the Ho 229 wasn't put into mass production before Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945.

But American researchers boxed up and shipped home the prototypes and partially-built planes that existed — and now the same company that builds the B-2 has rebuilt one.

Northrop Grumman Corp. spent its own time and money using the original German blueprints to replicate the wood-and-steel-tube bomber, right down to its unique metallic glue and paint, at its facility in El Segundo, Calif.

Using radar of the same type and frequency used by British coastal defenses in World War II, the engineers found that an Ho 229, flying a few dozen feet above the English Channel, would indeed have been "invisible" to the Royal Air Force — an advantage that arrived too late for the Nazis to exploit.
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"This was the most advanced technology that the Germans had at the end of the war, and Northrop solved the question of how stealthy it was and its performance against Allied radar at the time," documentary filmmaker Mike Jorgenson told the Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. "It's significantly better than anything flying operationally probably until the 1960s."

The National Geographic Channel will next air Jorgenson's documentary, "Hitler's Stealth Fighter," on Sunday, July 5.

arnout · 3rd July 2009, 08:52 AM

Lucasarts made a computer game 'secret weapons of the luftwaffe'. The germans were pretty far in developing these airplanes

ru' · 3rd July 2009, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by R33_GTS-t

...the engineers found that an Ho 229, flying a few dozen feet above the English Channel, would indeed have been "invisible" to the Royal Air Force ...

Hmmm, surely that'd be true for any aircraft?

davew · 3rd July 2009, 08:55 AM

re-engineered UFO technology

Eikichi · 3rd July 2009, 09:37 AM

German engineering was quite good but lucky for us they made a few mistakes.
At the end of the war Messerschmitt managed to roll out the first fighter jets which were outpassing any Allied propeller planes.
They were also quite close to complete the A-bomb before the US & lucky for us they made a few mistakes and didn't succeed.
I guess it's good otherwise the world would have been different to the one we know.

ru' · 3rd July 2009, 09:55 AM

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...I guess it's good otherwise the world would have been different to the one we know.

Yep, otherwise we'd have one controlling superpower convinced of its moral correctness going to war over money and religion...

Eikichi · 3rd July 2009, 12:04 PM

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Yep, otherwise we'd have one controlling superpower convinced of its moral correctness going to war over money and religion...

you forgot petrol as well...

fr0sty · 3rd July 2009, 01:31 PM

the v2 rocket helped the us space program alot also

etc... lots of things that hitlers germany was ahead but lots of mistake of bad planning caused them to lose the war

but nice piece of tech indeed

GTR-Dreamer · 3rd July 2009, 04:13 PM

RIPS did offcourse!

Jason abz · 3rd July 2009, 06:56 PM

(Flame suit at the ready)....there never has been nor will there ever be, an aircraft that is invisible to radar in its own capacity.

R33_GTS-t · 3rd July 2009, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Eikichi

German engineering was quite good but lucky for us they made a few mistakes.

Good job Werner Heisenberg made one, if it was a mistake.

ru' · 4th July 2009, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason abz

(Flame suit at the ready)....there never has been nor will there ever be, an aircraft that is invisible to radar in its own capacity.

Don't really agree with the 'nor will there ever be' bit, but as far as our lifetimes go then yeah, you're right!

R33_GTS-t · 4th July 2009, 12:51 PM

With fibre-optics and see-through clothes having been made already, it might be closer than you think.

Mookistar · 4th July 2009, 01:35 PM

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With fibre-optics and see-through clothes having been made already, it might be closer than you think.

won't stop it being solid though will it

mook

R33_GTS-t · 4th July 2009, 01:36 PM

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won't stop it being solid though will it

mook

If light can pass through maybe it's possible to make it so that radiowaves pass through too.

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