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Horten Ho 229: The Nazi Warplane That Looked Like a Stealth Bomber
National Security Journal ^
| 8/1/2025
| Brent M. Eastwood
Posted on 08/01/2025 5:50:15 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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It looks pretty impressive, but it has some significant drawbacks. A for effort, I guess.
To: whyilovetexas111
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posted on
08/01/2025 5:50:57 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: whyilovetexas111
ME-262 .......................
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posted on
08/01/2025 5:53:32 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: whyilovetexas111
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posted on
08/01/2025 5:55:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: whyilovetexas111
Skunkworks was working on Our version. I don’t remember when they started and I have to get some sleep right now but I will be back in later.
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:01:29 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!! )
To: whyilovetexas111
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:07:29 AM PDT
by
Openurmind
(AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
To: whyilovetexas111
Americans had parallel developments.
Vought V-173 "Flying pancake"
Curtis XP-55 Ascender.
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:13:30 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: Openurmind
Interesting. Thanks for posting (the tagline & homepage too).
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:16:39 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: fso301
The “Flying Pancake.”
I never heard about that one!
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:28:42 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Red Badger
They make a “modern” version of that jet, with the original plans and modern jet engines. The guy who shares my hanger has one.
Apparently it flies like a brick.
To: whyilovetexas111
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:35:43 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: whyilovetexas111
The article gets one thing wrong: the project wasn’t abandoned.
To: TheThirdRuffian
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:38:59 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: whyilovetexas111
The Germans were at least a decade ahead of us technologically.
Good thing Hitler was a terrible military leader.
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:43:06 AM PDT
by
chud
To: Red Badger
Must these Englishmen live that I might die?
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:44:14 AM PDT
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printhead
(.)
To: whyilovetexas111
This was a pretty neat documentary on it, covering Northrop Grumman’s effort to test its stealthiness with a replica. The conclusion was that while we wouldn’t call it stealthy, it was stealthIER than conventional aircraft, and combined with its speed could have been a huge threat if it was produced earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZFNp5MgJc
To: Red Badger
One of Germany’s biggest mistakes in WWII was over engineering their war machines....and that lives on today in the form of some German car manufacturers.
German tanks broke down so frequently, crews destroyed more of their own tanks to keep them out of allied hands than the allies ever did, and this thing was probably the same way. Add in rushing production and it never stood a chance....thank God.
Having said all that, the idea certainly was WAY ahead of its time.
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posted on
08/01/2025 6:59:39 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
08/01/2025 7:03:29 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: chud
“The Germans were at least a decade ahead of us technologically”
On aircraft and rockets, absolutely. Not on nuclear, though.
It is amazing, though, how a country went from being such a clear leader in technological innovation to being something of an also-ran. Losing >5 million of their best men in the war didn’t help
To: Red Badger
In the case of “The People’s Car” that one is under engineered IMO.
I had friends in the 80s that loved those things in the form of sand buggies.....me? I never understood a car with no A/C......ESPECIALLY where you and I live.
Inexpensive yes.....comfortable in extreme temperatures....not so much.
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posted on
08/01/2025 7:08:40 AM PDT
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V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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