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Great article from the BBC on the Horten Ho 229
In the last months of World War Two, Nazi Germany tested an experimental fighter more spaceship than aircraft. Only now are we realising how inspired it was. BBC Future looks at the Horten Ho 229, one of aviation’s most futuristic designs.
In the last months of World War Two, Nazi Germany tested an experimental fighter more spaceship than aircraft. Only now are we realising how inspired it was. BBC Future looks at the Horten Ho 229, one of aviation’s most futuristic designs.
The WW2 flying wing decades ahead of its time
Posted from bbc.com
Military History
Airplanes
Germany
WWII World War Two
Posted 7 y ago
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Greatest Mysteries of World War 2 Hitlers Secret Aircraft History HD Documentary
The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (often called Gotha Go 229 due to the identity of the chosen manufacturer of the aircraft) was a German prototype . G...
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LTC (Join to see)
I saw this after the BBC article piqued my interest. There is also a group that is recreating this aircraft with original plans and modern materials. Should be interesting.
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I've been delving into all that Wunderwaffen junk those lunatcs had a long, long time now, I found a lot more besides that story that was a whole lot weirder, I never knew if it was true or urban legend, honest...those morons were all completely nuts, obviously, the Japs of the period also, certainly....
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LTC (Join to see)
When you turn a group of engineers loose and fund them, they come up with some amazing things, look at the SR71. From what I have read, that was an engineering idea too.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
It:s obv one thing to do so legitimately, though I of course entirely fathom your point...it's clearly am entirely different matter when those doing it are psychopaths, run by psychopaths, all dependent on a criminal regime using slave labor, that was why when I'd learned of the Von Braun brothers and their cohort helping on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, I was also similarly obviously wholly appalled, of course, as I knew exactly what the were...genius is only genius, when driven for good purposes...inimical genius is merely inimical...s!art is only smart when devoted to positive human ends, not the destruction of the human race, certainly, obviously that's my own view entirely, of course, however, as I'd said, I completely understand your thought, certainly....
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