Posted on 06/27/2009 6:30:17 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
I guess the name Jack Northrop means nothing to you....
The Germans were nowhere near ready for the war in 1940. The General Staff had thought that 1949 or so might be right. They were still using horses during the war.
Had Hitler’s stealth fighter made it into mass production, the plane could have changed to course of the war in Europe, experts say.
They say that about almost every distinctive design for weapon systems the Germans thought up, and barely produced or tested...
It is a slick design though...
not so sure about it’s flight characteristics, but it’s a beautiful machine for sure.
add fighting wars on 2 fronts
why does eeryone forget N Africa and Italy?
It's also way too groovy.
Some very interesting reading: http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/horten_nurflugels.html
Commentary on the Ho IX (Ho 229): http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_ix/ho_ix_blurb/body_ho_ix_blurb.html
Ho 229 First Flight:
There was plenty of blame to go around.
Hitler diverted Gudierian’s Panzer Gruppe from Moscow to the south. They then extemporized the attack on Moscow, long after the Russian campaign should have been over, according to the plan.
I had a chat with an old veteran who got frostbite (he lost the ends of all his fingers) in Tula, southeast of Moscow. He was in an infantry division raised in Austria.
The Germans were shocked. Their intelligence estimates said the Soviets had a certain number of tanks, tank divisions, and infantry divisions. They then found that they before the attack on Moscow had already counted 200% of that number. But it was all Hitler’s fault.
Their best tank (so they thought) was the PzKwIII, and its shells bounced off the KV-1 and T-34 at close range. Guderian wrote the specification for the PzKwIII and PzKwIV in 1935. When it proved inadequate, it was Hitler’s fault.
They had gotten around the Versailles Treaty by training with tanks in Russia. Then, they were suprised. Oh, but it was all Hitler’s fault.
What a convenient scape goat he was.
When Jack Northrop saw the model of the B-2, he said “I was going to take those darned little fins off next.”
Quite happy about it he was. The sweep of the wing keeps the airplane quite stable in yaw. The aft position of the elevons due to trailing edge sweep take care of pitch. The big wings and elevons take care of roll.
The main German tranport for most of the war was the JU52.. it had the same corrugated skin, box, trimotor setup at the Ford ..the ju 52 were like shooting duck in a barral...it was NOT in any way stealth
...However the brits Wooden Wonder the Moquito did have a degree of stealth to it
The main German tranport for most of the war was the JU52.. it had the same corrugated skin, box, trimotor setup at the Ford ..the ju 52 were like shooting duck in a barral...it was NOT in any way stealth
...However the brits Wooden Wonder the Moquito did have a degree of stealth to it
About 6 fronts against Germany... Balkans, Northern France Southern France, Italy, Eastern Europe, Finland. And then you can start counting the Burma, China, Southwest Pacific, and Central Pacific against Japan.
A German submarine sank an American aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean, delivering aircraft to the British to use against the Japanese... That is what I call a World War.
From history I read that the early radar of that day could not see PAST a corrugated skin aircraft, like a chaff cloud, course millimeter aperture sees all nowadays.
Isn’t that the truth. Ford trucks made possible the speed of Patton’s advances AND the Soviet offensives while the Germans still relied on horses to move supplies.
Declaring war on the world’s greatest economic power who was at roughly 70% capacity before the war was suicidal. Thanks to the Great Depression, the US had a remarkable number of idle factories that could be ramped up into war production in months.
You must be referring to the Northrop N9M Flying Wing. Its first flight was in 1942, long before we had computerized controls.
One example of leaked report videos if posted below:
Video: Haunebu Nazi UFOs by Professor Mandelhoff
To view more reports about Nazi UFOs and to view more UFO videos -- Just follow this link and scroll down:
Crap!
Edwards AFB comes to mind here.
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