[Dallas59]

[Dallas59]

Germany was way ahead of it’s time...Genius mixed with tyranny and horror.

[SolidWood]

[Woodman]

Yes and I hear DaVinci invented the helicopter as well...
It looks to me like it had no chance of flying without a tail in the design and lake of computers to control wing surfaces in flight.

[cripplecreek]

I suspect they would never achieved great success for the same reasons our early flying wings failed. They would have needed modern computers to make the second by second tiny adjustments that are required to keep them in the air.

[SeeSharp]

Made primarily of wood and powered by jet engines, the plane was designed for speeds of up to 600 miles an hour (970 kilometers an hour).

I'm still shaking my head after reading that sentence.

[Sherman Logan]

In the process, they've uncovered new clues to just how close Nazi engineers were to unleashing a jet that some say could have changed the course of the war.

Not likely. There are those little pesky details of not having any fuel, or of being able to get time to train pilots in how to fly the things, or of not having airbases not under constant attack.

It takes more to control the skies than a superior aircraft.

[Professional Engineer]

Ping

[Eye of Unk]

Hitlers engineers could have easily built a computer assisted system to fly this aircraft. It was the early concept of a larger flying wing that was to have been built to deliver atomic bombs to strike American cities.

The YB aircraft that we built were based upon these concepts, actually the Skunk Works used a lot of WW2 other nation concepts.

Whats a good conspiracy story is why the YB project was canceled, all blueprints destroyed and all aircraft pieces destroyed as well. Why? Because it DID work and was probably a platform that was so efficient that the US Government was so afraid another country would build it that they decided to keep it off the production lines for decades.

[mikeus_maximus]

...they've uncovered new clues to just how close Nazi engineers were to unleashing a jet that some say could have changed the course of the war.

That's because "some" are idiots. They overlook the allied industrial base and the game of aeronautical one-upsmanship we played everytime the Germans rolled out something formidable. Then there's that little matter of the P-80 Shooting Star and the Gloucester Meteor, both of which had protopyes in existence by 1944 and which could have been mass produced if necessary. Just as fast or faster than the Horton, and not made of wood.

[Petronski]

She'll fly a lot faster if they remove that giant steel cone from her belly.

[SunkenCiv]

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[tophat9000]

This is just over hyped "Luff 46" crap

The SÄNGER AMERIKA BOMBER ... now that was something way out there http://www.luft46.com/misc/sanger.html

[surfer]

That is really cool...I will have to watch this. Thanks