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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. Re:NSFW by ragefan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just cannot imagine that an article titled "Hitler's Stealth Fighter" would include links to photos that contain images of a plane that have swastikas painted on them!

    </sarcasm>

    If you were really that afraid of getting in trouble for having Nazi-related material on your screen, why are you even reading and posting to this Slashdot article.

  2. Re:Good thing he wasn't a Nerd by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hitlers single, fatal mistake was taking on the Soviet Union.

    Fixed.

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  3. Re:Good thing he wasn't a Nerd by El+Torico · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

    And never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Unless you're immune to iocane of course.

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