Replica Horten Ho 2-29 reconstructed from blueprints.
“The Horten Ho 229 was a late-World War II Nazi German prototype fighter/bomber. It was the first pure flying wing powered by a jet engine and designed to be more difficult to detect with radar - the first aircraft to incorporate what is now known as stealth technology.“
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I hate to admit it, but that’s a beautiful looking machine.
At first I thought this was another fantasy uber-advanced nazi aircraft like the haunebu… until I found pictures of the surviving real one!
I’ve read about the Nazis exploration into jet power. To see this photo is…kind of creepy - as the design is so close (if not the same) to the current stealth.
Don’t forget, a lot of the scientists who developed these sorts of things like the V-2 were being compelled to do it, so don’t necessarily hate the plane. A lot of these guys came to work for us after 1945.
I’m guessing that this was hard to fly without vertical flight surfaces. I know that the stealth bomber has to be flown with the assistance computer just because it flew like a wadded up piece of paper.
“came to work” or “were forced to work”?