Hitler's Stealth Fighter 582
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DesScorp writes "Aviation Week reports on a television special from the National Geographic Channel on what may have been the world's first true stealth fighter, the Horten Ho 229, a wooden design that was to include a layer of carbon material sandwiched in the leading edge to defeat radar. Northrop Grumman, experts at stealth technology from their Tacit Blue and B-2 programs, have built a full-size replica of the airframe and tested it at their desert facilities where they determined that the design was indeed stealthy, and would have been practically invisible to Britain's Chain Home radar system of WWII."
Man (Score:5, Funny)
What DIDN'T Hitler Do?
Re:Man (Score:5, Funny)
What DIDN'T Hitler Do?
make friends as a child?
not so fast (Score:5, Funny)
I believe that the advances in detection technology would always have allowed the allies to hear a Horton Ho.
NSFW (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Man (Score:5, Funny)
Succeed as an artist?
Hehe (Score:4, Funny)
From the article (yeah I know, Slashdot, not supposed to, etc)
IIRC the United States developed something called Atomic Bombs that would have counteracted any advantage Germany would have gained from stealth jets.
Re:NSFW (Score:5, Funny)
Tell them you were reminding yourself about just how bad a person Hitler was. And then chomp down on a big banger while saluting a picture of the queen to let them know how much you love England.
Re:Man (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NSFW (Score:5, Funny)
I've got mod points, but I can't find anything that matches +1 Frightful Police State.
Re:Man (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad that Indiana Jones was able to destroy this thing in Egypt, before it got off the ground. Otherwise, who knows how the war would have gone?
Re:NSFW (Score:5, Funny)
In America, we call it a sausage in the mouth.
Re:Good thing he wasn't a Nerd (Score:-1, Funny)
Re:Best Photos (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Best Photos (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone kills Hitler their first time.
Re:So no one hears a Horton Ho? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure in 20 years we'll find German plans to make ray guns, giant mech fighers, etc. Castle Wolfenstein game plots seems less & less like fiction as the years go on. :)
Re:not so fast (Score:4, Funny)
I'd be more certain that the plane would pick up local BBC Radio chatter
meaning that maybe, Horton heard Dr Who...
Re:If it were only in the leading edge (Score:3, Funny)
The Japanese would have solved this by not having any bomb bay doors in the first place.
Re:Another Example of German Technical Achievement (Score:3, Funny)
You're saying Quake doesn't teach Ammo Conservation?
Re:Good thing he wasn't a Nerd (Score:5, Funny)
He wanted the Soviet Union as well, when there was no possibility he would have won that war due to the sheer size of the USSR.
So, don't get involved in a land war in Asia. Got it.
Re:Goodwin's Law! (Score:3, Funny)
Goodwin's Law: The longer a thread gets, the higher the chance someone will misspell 'Godwin'.
Re:So no one hears a Horton Ho? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good thing he wasn't a Nerd (Score:5, Funny)
Besides, where would we have entered it from?
Sarah Palin's house.
Re:Man (Score:5, Funny)
I'm guessing you haven't seen Hitler's artwork.
Nice children's book (Score:2, Funny)
That's funny on a couple of levels.
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what with swastika flags and all. I'll be in trouble if someone has overseen my screen just then, being a german living in Britain.
Speaking of which (and paraphrasing The Extras), where did these people get those huge swastikas?
Re:NSFW (Score:3, Funny)