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Hitler's Stealth Fighter

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-for-a-whole-new-round-of-ww2-games dept.

DesScorp writes "Aviation Week reports on a television special from the National Geographic Channel on what may have been the world's first true stealth fighter, the Horten Ho 229, a wooden design that was to include a layer of carbon material sandwiched in the leading edge to defeat radar. Northrop Grumman, experts at stealth technology from their Tacit Blue and B-2 programs, have built a full-size replica of the airframe and tested it at their desert facilities where they determined that the design was indeed stealthy, and would have been practically invisible to Britain's Chain Home radar system of WWII."

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  1. Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What DIDN'T Hitler Do?

    1. Re:Man by cool_story_bro · · Score: 5, Funny

      What DIDN'T Hitler Do?

      make friends as a child?

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    2. Re:Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What DIDN'T Hitler Do?

      Succeed as an artist?

    3. Re:Man by bytethese · · Score: 5, Funny

      Win the war, thankfully.

    4. Re:Man by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm glad that Indiana Jones was able to destroy this thing in Egypt, before it got off the ground. Otherwise, who knows how the war would have gone?

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    5. Re:Man by Lakitu · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm guessing you haven't seen Hitler's artwork.

  2. not so fast by queequeg1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe that the advances in detection technology would always have allowed the allies to hear a Horton Ho.

  3. NSFW by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    what with swastika flags and all. I'll be in trouble if someone has overseen my screen just then, being a german living in Britain.

    1. Re:NSFW by mdm-adph · · Score: 5, Funny

      Tell them you were reminding yourself about just how bad a person Hitler was. And then chomp down on a big banger while saluting a picture of the queen to let them know how much you love England.

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    2. Re:NSFW by 13bPower · · Score: 5, Funny

      In America, we call it a sausage in the mouth.

  4. Re:Best Photos by fprintf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone kills Hitler their first time.

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  5. Re:So no one hears a Horton Ho? by British · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure in 20 years we'll find German plans to make ray guns, giant mech fighers, etc. Castle Wolfenstein game plots seems less & less like fiction as the years go on. :)

  6. Re:Good thing he wasn't a Nerd by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    He wanted the Soviet Union as well, when there was no possibility he would have won that war due to the sheer size of the USSR.

    So, don't get involved in a land war in Asia. Got it.

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