I'm impressed. I knew a little about their flying wing but never had the opportunity to see a replica or a detailed article about it. Very intersing stuff. I find it amazing how technologically advanced Germany was at that time. I'm sure with many of the Nazi scientists that made it over to American soil helped engineer the Stealth bomber of today. Makes one wonder what kind of toys the US has currently hidden.

It seems there are very many duplicates these days. I don't know why, but the search function doesn't seem to hard to use. Frankly speaking and without offense, it's getting kinda annoying.

there was a show on discovery channel or history where they built this replica, and tested it against the radar, it wasn't completely invisible, but would have done well enough to turn the tide in the war had they been mass produced.

Originally posted by Mdv2
It seems there are very many duplicates these days. I don't know why, but the search function doesn't seem to hard to use. Frankly speaking and without offense, it's getting kinda annoying.

It is broken!
they are using google search possibly for 2 reasons: #1 keep server load down & #2 maybe make a few pennies from searches

The search is completely messed up and does not work properly

Search for an exactly thread title and you wont find it. What turns up instead are threads that contain one of the words you searched for.
Even using AND/OR/+ and quotes does not work properly

It is frustrating indeed

Aye, the Nachtjaeger. Might have actually made a difference had they actually fielded the damn thing.

Originally posted by ShadeWolf
Aye, the Nachtjaeger. Might have actually made a difference had they actually fielded the damn thing.

Why ? The 262 squadrons they had available didn't really make much difference at the end of the war, the problem was these jets were simply too fast compared to the propellor engined fighters and it was far too difficult to get a firing solution and if they were lucky enough to get one they had literally a second to fire a burst or else they'd be in the 6 of the enemy.

With the bombers like this it still wouldn't have made a difference, Hitler screwed up by ordering the Luftwaffe to focus efforts on civilian targets during the Battle of Britain bomber raids instead of pounding the British airfields into the ground and we were near breaking point we got lucky that Hitler decided to make this, one of his many tactical errors. They also screwed up by scrapping their carrier program, when the dawn of carrier warfare was coming into fruition which also cost them greatly!

German engineering was amazing during WW2, however they made things far too complicated which resulted in alot of mechanical failures especially in the Tigers, Panthers & KingTigers.

They did come up with some freaky designs though I suggest you search for the Ratte & Maus if you want to see insane german engineering lol (The Maus did reach testing phase, however the Ratte was only a concept)

Oh and Foo fighters during WW2 make some interesting reading (no, not the band)

[edit on 15/7/09 by Discotech]

lol... another case of something i first read in a post on ats becomes news..

happens loads lately, although, i bet not everyone looks in the aircraft forum, being one of the quiter areas its hard to see when new threads are posted sometimes , or it is for me anyway at times , i tend to pay that area a weekly visit. the timings pretty accurate for the daily main on one of these topics, their always a few weeks behind.. and probably did see it on ats lol

(most of the posts are for the hardcore aircraft buffs , i just reading about strange aircraft like this)

no S+F, but good post (as long as its an innocent duplicate lolz)

[edit on 15-7-2009 by boaby_phet]

Originally posted by ShadeWolf
Aye, the Nachtjaeger. Might have actually made a difference had they actually fielded the damn thing.

Hitler's problem near the end of the war wasn't that he didn't have planes. It was the fact that there were not enough skilled pilots to fly the planes he had. Especially the new jet engine planes, which were harder to fly than the regular prop driven planes.

Even if they could have manufactured a large amount of these 'stealth' bombers, there weren't enough pilots to have made a difference.

I had always thought the original WIng fighter back in the 1960's, was from nazi technology. Either that, or some general somewhere lokoed at a boomerang, and alightbulb idea went off

Actually the "Amerika" bomber which is the larger version of the Horten, which the brothers were scrambling to complete, would have been far more effective and devastating if completed. They left the production of the Horten up to their team while they focused on completing the Amerika bomber under orders from Hitler and Goering. It was supposed to be capable of delivering Germany's first nuclear device to the U.S.'s shores with a minimal increase of RCS from the Horten.