[Nobbc] Fw: stealth bomber from HITLER

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: Fwd: stealth bomber from HITLER

B  : stealth bomber from HITLER

B 

The Germans nearly made it but ran out of time.B  But the allies took its
advantage and adapted it for their own use.

Keep in mind, this aircraft was built in the 1940's.B  It resembles our
Stealth bombers of today.B  Had Hitler got these into production sooner, the
world wouldn't be what it is today.B B 

B  B 

B  image.jpg

With its smooth and elegant lines, this could be a prototype for some future
successor to the stealth bomber.B B B 

But this flying wing was actually designed byB  the Nazis 30 years before the
Americans successfully developed radar-invisible technology.B  Now anB 
engineering team has reconstructed the Horten HoB  2-29 from blueprints, with
startling results. B 

B  B 

B  image_1.jpg

Blast from the past: The full-scaleB  replica of the Ho 2-29 bomber was made
withB  materials available in the 40s. B 

B  B B B 

B  B 

image_2.jpg

Futuristic:B 

The stealth plane design wasB  years ahead of its time.B  It was faster andB 
more efficient than any other plane of the period andB  its stealth powers did
work against radar.B  Experts are now convinced that given a little bitB  more
time, the mass deployment of this aircraft could have changed the course of
the war.B 

image_3.jpg

B B 

The plane could have helped Adolf Hitler win the war.B  First built and tested
in the air in MarchB  1944, it was designed with a greater range and speedB 
than any plane previously built and was the first aircraft to use theB 
stealth technology now deployed by the U.S. in its B-2 bombers.B  Thankfully
Hitler's engineers only made three prototypes, tested by beingB  dragged
behind a glider, and were not able to build them on an industrial scale before
the Allied forcesB  invaded.B 

>From Panzer tanks through to the V-2 rocket, it has long been recognized that
Germany 'sB  technological expertise during the war was years ahead of the
Allies.B  But by 1943, Nazi high command feared that the war was beginning to
turn against them, and were desperate to develop new weapons to help turn the
tide.B  Nazi bombers were suffering badlyB  when faced with the speed and
maneuverability of the Spitfire and other Allied fighters.B B  Hitler was also
desperate to develop a bomber with the range and capacity to reach the United
States.B 

In 1943 Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering demanded that designers come up with a
bomber that would meet his requirements, one that could carry 1,000 kg over
1,000km flying at 1,000km/h.B 

B B B 

AB  full scale replica of the Ho 229 bomber made with materials available in
the 1940s at preflight.B 

B  image_4.jpg

A wing section of the stealth bomber. The jet intakes were years ahead of
their time. Two pilot brothers in their thirties, Reimar and Walter Horten,B 
suggested a flying wing design they had been working onB  for years. They were
convinced that with its drag and lack of wind resistance such a plane would
meet Goering's requirements.B 

Construction on a prototype was begun in Goettingen in Germany in 1944.B 

The centre pod was made from a welded steel tube, and was designed to be
powered by a BMW 003 engine. The most important innovation was Reimar Horten's
idea to coat it in a mix of charcoal dust and wood glue.B 

B  B 

B  B 

image_5.jpg

B B 

Vengeful: Inventors Reimar and WalterB  Horten were inspired to build the Ho
2-29 by the deaths of thousands of Luftwaffe pilots in the Battle of
Britain.B 

B B 

The 142-foot wingspan bomber was submitted for approval in 1944, and it would
have been able to fly from Berlin to NYC and back without refueling, thanks to
the same blended wing design and six BMW 003A or eight Junker Jumo 004B
turbojets.B B  They thought the electromagnetic waves of radar would be
absorbed, and in conjunction with the aircraft's sculpted surfaces the craft
would be rendered almost invisible to radar detectors.B  The plane was covered
in radar absorbent paint with a high graphite content, which has a similar
chemical make-up to charcoal.B  This was the same method eventually used by
the U.S.. in its first stealth aircraft in the early 1980s, the F-117A
Nighthawk.B 

After the war the Americans captured the prototype Ho 2-29s along with the
blueprints and used some of their technological advances to aid their own
designs.B  But experts always doubted claims that the Horten could actually
function as a stealth aircraft.B 

Now using the blueprints and the only remaining prototype craft,
Northrop-Grumman (the defense firm behind theB B 

B-2) built a full-size replica of a Horten Ho 2-29.

B  image_6.jpg

B  B B 

B  Luckily for Britain, the Horten flying wing fighter-bomber never got much
further than the blueprint stage above.B 

B  B 

B  image_7.jpgB 

B  B 

B  B 

Thanks to the use of wood and carbon, jet engines integrated into the
fuselage, and its blended surfaces, the plane could have been in London eight
minutes after the radar system detected it.B  It took them 2,500 man-hours and
$250,000 to construct, and although their replica cannot fly, it was
radar-tested by placing it on a 50 ft articulating pole and exposing it to
electromagnetic waves.B  The team demonstrated that although the aircraft is
not completely invisible to the type of radar used in the war, it would have
been stealthy enough and fast enough to ensure that it could reach London
before Spitfires could be scrambled to interceptB  it.B 

If the Germans had had time to develop this aircraft, it could well have had
an impact, says Peter Murton, aviation expert from the Imperial War Museum at
Duxford, in Cambridgeshire.B 

In theory the flying wing was a very efficient aircraft design, which
minimized drag.B B  It is one of the reasons that it could reach very high
speeds in dive and glide modes and had such an incredibly long range.B 

The research was filmed for a 2009 documentary on the National Geographic
Channel. B B 

There's more interesting information on Wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Ho_229