Northrop-Grumman sponsored the construction of a full-sized(?) Ho229 replica back in 2008 to test its stealth properties
The National Air & Space Museum has moved its 229 into the restoration hall to start work. Finally.
Posted on 11/17/2015 11:10:02 AM PST by Talisker
We used to have them on our building. Every once in a while the would drop pigeon parts on the smokers below.
Better enjoy the sight of the falcon before it becomes extinct by the wind power generators.
Couldn’t get a better designer.
Roger that!
They probably did not come back because they ran into the blades of a wind-driven power generator
I left. The falcon’s grandkids are still around. They are great birds to watch.
Northrop-Grumman sponsored the construction of a full-sized(?) Ho229 replica back in 2008 to test its stealth properties
The National Air & Space Museum has moved its 229 into the restoration hall to start work. Finally.
Gotta be an improvement on Boeing basing the X-32 design on a pelican:
One thing about the owl’s flight is that it’s silent.
Very low noise level.
That thing reminds me of a feeding whale shark.
I’d be embarrassed to fly it. FUGLY
An even closer match from the side is the nighthawk and the whippoorwill.
Not really- the nose looks exactly like the head and beak of a nighthawk.
But it’s extraordinarily difficult to get good in-flight pics of a nighthawk because they are stealthy, very good at diving and swooping and of course, do it very late in the evening when light is low.
Test pilots dubbed that bird the “Monica”.
I toured the Paul Garber facility, oh about 20 years ago, and stood right next to the wingless Ho 229. What an aircraft. Also, got to see the Northrup N-9MB fly at the Chino Airshow, back in maybe the late 90s.
The Horten brothers’ work goes back well into the early 30’s when they were just kids.
http://www.birdzilla.com/components/com_birds/files/196/img2/2_common-nighthawk-cover2a.jpg
http://vancouverislandbirds.com/ajune2006b-056nighthawk.jpg
http://www.outdooralabama.com/sites/default/files/images/Image/LesserNighthawk.jpg
Cool front view:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5191/5840007800_a4bc1b9419_z.jpg
Of course the amusing thing is that it is the stealth fighter which is called the nighthawk and it looks nothing like one, while the B2 is a lookalike. On the other hand the B2 being a bomber it functions more like a pigeon over a parking lot.
Why leave out the Germans flying wing, it was the predecessor to both!
I still have not been to the Udvar-Hazy center, and not downtown to the Mall in years. It is good to see they've dragged the 229 out to fix it up:
So my brother and I and 2 of our friends made the trip... on the way home we stopped by the museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground and also made a detour for Bertha's Muscles in Baltimore.
I don't have the prints of the photos I took, but at the time the Ho 229 was sitting in the same building in about the same position as shown in these shots (click for the full resolution)... Seriously, that building was like a pickers dream for aviation people... how many historically significant aircraft and parts could be crammed into one Butler building?
I must have been in a different building. This was a limited time thing, only open for the weekend IIRC. Where I was had the Japanese Kikka (Me262 knockoff) suspended from the ceiling.
Of course, they also could have shuffled things around in the decade between our respective visits. :)
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