Hitlers stealth fighter program

[jastheace]

Hi Guys,

not sure if anyone else has seen this, but i watched it last night, was quite intresting, basically a team from northrop grumman built a model of the Horton H229 fighter. they built it full scale and with the same materials that the orginal was built to. it turns out that it wasn't completly stealthy, but it madea big difference, in the tune of only give the home chain radar that britian had only about 8 minutes warning that it was on it's way instead of the normal 45+ minutes, could have been a game changer if it had come in earlier in the war, had more relaible engines, etc would love to know what happened to the model, hope it went to a museum some where

Jason

[Bazza]

San Diego Air and Space Museum.


http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=289789

[markll]

QUOTE (jastheace @ May 6 2010, 01:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Guys,

not sure if anyone else has seen this, but i watched it last night, was quite intresting, basically a team from northrop grumman built a model of the Horton H229 fighter. they built it full scale and with the same materials that the orginal was built to. it turns out that it wasn't completly stealthy, but it madea big difference, in the tune of only give the home chain radar that britian had only about 8 minutes warning that it was on it's way instead of the normal 45+ minutes, could have been a game changer if it had come in earlier in the war, had more relaible engines, etc would love to know what happened to the model, hope it went to a museum some where

Jason

Yeah, nice one - seen that doco a few times now. Irritates the hell out of me that so many Nat Geo docos have to throw an American slant on things - this one had the mention of the hypothetical HO18 (which never actually flew) carrying a Nazi nuke (which again, never actually existed) across the Atlantic to lay waste to New York. Same with the one about the Indonesian Super Volcano - no mention of Taupo, scene of TWO of the largest 15 or 20 eruptions known to man, but they go all wild over the friggin Yellowstone caldera.