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A group of experts from Northrop Grunman, a global security company, recently re-built the Horten 2-29 for a television special airing Sunday on the National Geographic Channel. The team's goal was to determine if the rumors were true; was the Horten 2-29 the world's first stealth fighter? They tested the original aircraft with WWII-era radar technology before building a model held together with primarily wood and glue. Then, they hoisted it on top of a five-story column and subjected the model to the same radar technology.
In the end, the team discovered that the plane would have been detected by radar 80 miles from the British coast instead of 100 miles away. While 20 miles doesn't sound like much, stealth expert Tom Dobrenz did tell National Geographic that it would have cut the Allied Forces' available time for response in half. So, could this plane have changed the course of WWII? Probably not, historian George Cully explained. The Nazis only had time to develop a couple of prototypes of the 2-29 around Christmas in 1944. By then, time was running out for Hitler and his army. [From: National Geographic]
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Subscribe to commentsmitchellesqJun 29th 2009 6:52PM
How exciting. I only recently learned of Britsh and American jet fighters in existence (and use) at the end of WWII - I thought only Luftwaffe had them. Still, a Mustang shot one down in a dogfight at the end of the war. Good thing the war ended when it did. If Hitler hadn't invaded USSR and precipitated the loss of the war, who knows when it would've ended, if ever. And these Hortons couldn't been all over the skies in Europe.
MillersonJun 30th 2009 1:06AM
Hitler did win the war in a way. His idea of one world government with unbridled capitalism, and the masses controlled by propaganda, is exactly what is going on today. In fact, his inspirational work, "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays, became the bible for future American government administrations. This is not some wild conspiracy theory, but established historical fact. Google Edward Bernays - or look him up on Wikipedia, and see for yourself.
fastharryJun 30th 2009 7:16AM
My uncle, and you can goggle his name, Stephen Ananian, was the first pilot in the 339th fighter group, and one of the few in the 8th AF, to engage an ME 262 jet in combat, and down it with a P51....Given my uncle is a special pilot, I'd imagine he would have loved to engage one of these also....