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Old 07-01-2009, 07:13 AM
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The war really could have had a different outcome if this plane was built earlier.
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Meet the "wonder weapon" that could have won the war for Hitler.

Called the Horten 229, the radical "flying wing" fighter-bomber looked and acted a lot like the U.S. Air Force's current B-2 — right down to the "stealth" radar-evading characteristics.

Fortunately for the world, the Ho 229 wasn't put into mass production before Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945.

But American researchers boxed up and shipped home the prototypes and partially-built planes that existed — and now the same company that builds the B-2 has rebuilt one.

Northrop Grumman Corp. spent its own time and money using the original German blueprints to replicate the wood-and-steel-tube bomber, right down to its unique metallic glue and paint, at its facility in El Segundo, Calif.

Using radar of the same type and frequency used by British coastal defenses in World War II, the engineers found that an Ho 229, flying a few dozen feet above the English Channel, would indeed have been "invisible" to the Royal Air Force — an advantage that arrived too late for the Nazis to exploit.

"This was the most advanced technology that the Germans had at the end of the war, and Northrop solved the question of how stealthy it was and its performance against Allied radar at the time," documentary filmmaker Mike Jorgenson told the Long Beach, Calif., Press-Telegram. "It's significantly better than anything flying operationally probably until the 1960s."

The National Geographic Channel will next air Jorgenson's documentary, "Hitler's Stealth Fighter," on Sunday, July 5.

FOXNews.com - Nazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
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I shutter to think what would have happened if this aircraft had been built before the war ended. There were a lot of very talented German Engineers that I believe, after the war was over, were quietly offered jobs in the US instead of prison and so lots of questionable Germans with expertise were allowed to migrate to our country. That is what makes the rounding up of our Japanese citizens and putting them in "camps" even more of an inexcusable action.
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Not the only mistake President Roosevelt(D) made.
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I'm sure that is true Ranch....
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