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It looks pretty impressive, but it has some significant drawbacks. A for effort, I guess.
1 posted on 08/01/2025 5:50:15 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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2 posted on 08/01/2025 5:50:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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ME-262 .......................

3 posted on 08/01/2025 5:53:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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4 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....................)
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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.


5 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!! )
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6 posted on 08/01/2025 6:07:29 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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Americans had parallel developments.

Vought V-173 "Flying pancake"

Curtis XP-55 Ascender.


7 posted on 08/01/2025 6:13:30 AM PDT by fso301
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This ME-262 replica was at Oshkosh this year.

https://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/resurrecting-white-3-our-replica-me-262-takes-a-stroll/


11 posted on 08/01/2025 6:35:43 AM PDT by DFG
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The article gets one thing wrong: the project wasn’t abandoned.


12 posted on 08/01/2025 6:36:58 AM PDT by Windcatcher
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The Germans were at least a decade ahead of us technologically.
Good thing Hitler was a terrible military leader.


14 posted on 08/01/2025 6:43:06 AM PDT by chud
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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


16 posted on 08/01/2025 6:53:23 AM PDT by Windcatcher
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Hitler dismissed jet engines at the beginning of the war


22 posted on 08/01/2025 7:11:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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There was a reconnaissance aircraft (the Blohm und Voss BV141) with an asymmetrical design - looks like parts of it fell off during the design process, but it flew.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/aircraft/blohm-voss-bv-141.html


60 posted on 08/01/2025 11:01:26 AM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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http://greyfalcon.us/The%20Horten%20Ho%20229.htm


62 posted on 08/01/2025 6:06:25 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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