Hitler's Stealth Fighter Re-created

BURNING MAN · 06-26-2009, 10:55 PM

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ON TV Hitler's Stealth Fighter airs Sunday, June 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.

Top stealth-plane experts have re-created a radical, nearly forgotten Nazi aircraft: the Horten 2-29, a retro-futuristic fighter that arrived too late in World War II to make it into mass production.

The engineers' goal was to determine whether the so-called stealth fighter was truly radar resistant. In the process, they've uncovered new clues to just how close Nazi engineers were to unleashing a jet that some say could have changed the course of the war.

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kidflash2008 · 06-28-2009, 09:11 AM

It is a cool looking aircraft, but the Germans had difficulty flying it as the avionic computers were not developed to make the craft fly stable. That did not happen until the 1970s, which is why the US Air Force abandoned the flying wing in the 1950s.

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06-28-2009, 09:11 AM	#2
kidflash2008 Senior Investigator Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,699	It is a cool looking aircraft, but the Germans had difficulty flying it as the avionic computers were not developed to make the craft fly stable. That did not happen until the 1970s, which is why the US Air Force abandoned the flying wing in the 1950s.