Hitler's Stealth Fighter

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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Another Example of German Technical Achievement

[Anonymous Coward]

After the start of the Enlightenment, Germans have made many contributions to engineering and science. In addition to the first stealth fighter, the Germans invented calculus (co-invented with an Englishman), the guided missle (which later became the American Saturn V), the car (beating Henry Ford to the punch), etc. A Germany co-discovered superconductivity in ceramics, which paved the way for the synthesis of high-temperature superconductors.

Why have Germans accomplished so much in engineering and science? Here, "German" includes Germans of all religious groups, including Judaism.

Why have Africans made little contribution to engineering and science?

Re:We were THIS close

[grub]

We could be living in a utopia right now.

Yep. Rather than wasting my day in front of networking gear and *nix prompts I could be in my stealthly wooden flying car going to my job at the gas chambers.

Re:Best Photos

[ak3ldama]

Sometimes I think that the world got lucky - a few small changes in history, and things could easily have gone the other way.

This is of course based on the belief that German rule would have been worse than the resulting dual rule by the Western Powers and the USSR...