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PHOTOS: "Hitler's Stealth Fighter"
National Geographic ^
| June 25, 2009
| Linda Reynolds
Posted on 06/27/2009 6:30:17 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin
It’s a good thing our German scientists were smarter than the Soviet’s German scientists.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:32:37 PM PDT
by
Rodebrecht
(What are you and who do you want?)
To: Arec Barrwin
Had Hitler's stealth fighter made it into mass production, the plane could have changed to course of the war in Europe, experts say. Yeah, it would have delayed the war long enough for us to nuke Germany back to the stone age.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:33:13 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: Arec Barrwin
How can this not be on the Hitler Channel???
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:33:13 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Arec Barrwin
To: Arec Barrwin
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:33:51 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Not exactly that stealthy and probably would not fly. Flying wings were not a rousing success before computers.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:34:03 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:35:41 PM PDT
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sionnsar
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To: Jet Jaguar
wow, that is way too cool.They were way ahead on all the aircraft designs, including a forward swept bomber, the v-2, some ramjet rotor affairs.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:36:33 PM PDT
by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
To: freedumb2003
My European history teacher told me that had it not been for WWII, the History Channel would not exist.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:36:45 PM PDT
by
Rodebrecht
(What are you and who do you want?)
To: AppyPappy
If I understand it correctly flying wings are darn near impossible without computer control.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:38:45 PM PDT
by
Fzob
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
To: Arec Barrwin
If the Germans had settled on just one or two advanced designs and put them into mass prodcution they probably could have a good number of operational ME-262’s in 1942 and probably would have had them much better developed by 1943 or 44. that really could have made a difference but we really had them so outnumbered that we still would have won.
Instead they wasted resources on some fantastic aircraft which were years from deployment, at least in numbers.
I also read that the Russian fighters of the last year or so of WWII were fully equal to the P-51 mustang. Maybe the YAK-9 can’t recall for sure.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:39:02 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Arec Barrwin
Cool weapons but the Germans would have done alot better with better more mundane things - better radar, better trucks and cold weather gear...
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:39:09 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: AppyPappy
FWIW youtube has a military thing on it and I have been downloading P-40s, P-47, and other aerial stuff. I think I saw german flying wing on there too.
If you want to have a good laugh, go to youtube and search “hitler nigerian email”
parsy, who laughed til he was sore
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:39:12 PM PDT
by
parsifal
("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
To: Arec Barrwin
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:39:58 PM PDT
by
Snurple
(VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
To: Arec Barrwin
This somehow looks oddly like the styling of Elwood Engle’s Chrysler Turbine coupe from the 60’s. He came to Chrysler from Ford, where he designed the iconic 61 Continental and the 61 Thunderbird, which was originally intended to be a Lincoln, hence the similarity. Engle replaced an ailing Virgil Exner, who was responsible for the memorable, soaring tailfins on Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge and DeSoto automobiles.
To: Arec Barrwin
Actually what really might have changed the Air War in Europe would have been the ME-262 being mass produced and given a longer range. Of course if that happened Germany still didn’t have the pilots or the fuel to fly them toward the war’s end.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:40:21 PM PDT
by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
To: Arec Barrwin
I dare anyone to counter this little bit of aviation folklore.
The Ford Trimotor with its corrugated skin was actually the first “stealth” aircraft.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:42:38 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: AppyPappy
Not exactly that stealthy and probably would not fly. Flying wings were not a rousing success before computers
It flew! And so did other German flying wings like the Messerschmitt Me 163.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:46:15 PM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
(quem deus vult perdere prius dementat)
To: AppyPappy
It would very likely fly. Hortens invented the flying wing that Northrup had to reinvent.
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posted on
06/27/2009 6:48:42 PM PDT
by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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