Horton 229 ,Stealth

[EddyR]

This video is about the German WWII Horton 229 aircraft. Northrop wanted to know if it really had stealth capabilities so they built a replica of it. It is interesting as the repica was built very much like our model aircraft. I like how they formed the canopy. In flight test in 1944-45 it out performed the German 262 jet. They show the famous but very secret stealth lab and staging area with the Horton 229 mounted and tested. The views of the Stealth testing labs are very informative. I no longer have satellite as I am a over the air reception so if you have seen it on Satellite just forgive my lack of there programming. Enjoy
 
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[Steve Fitton]

The Ho-229 is slightly stealthy, right up until a radar sees those compressor fans turning...

I'm not even an internet radar expert, but I think stealth only works at narrower wavelengths.  WWII search radar could probably see the Ho-229 just fine.  I believe our enemies today are moving away from narrow wavelengths to longer ones that will negate the advantage of stealth to some extent.

[RC Storick]

According to the discovery channel it's very stealthy. The Discovery channel built a full scale plane and put it up on a pedestal and shot radar on it. Worked remarkably well. It was funny watching the engineers trying to pull a canopy. They didn't quite know how to do it.

I just looked at this video and this is it.

[Douglas Ames]

There was an additive in the paint the Germans used (Graphite, maybe?) that actually reduced it's radar sig. 
It's a shame our USAAC Brass was so narrow minded early in the war. Kelly Johnson/ Lockheed had a design ready to go.

[Brett Buck]

There was an additive in the paint the Germans used (Graphite, maybe?) that actually reduced it's radar sig. 
It's a shame our USAAC Brass was so narrow minded early in the war. Kelly Johnson/ Lockheed had a design ready to go.

    I am not sure what you are referring to. Surely not the L-133?  That was never going to happen (engine couldn't be built today, much less in the 40's - the Westinghouse J-40 was very similar and they couldn't build it in the 50s). And it certainly wasn't stealthy. Looked cool, admittedly, but the only thing that really came of it was the same wing was later used in the P-80/T-33/T2V.

    Brett

[Curare]

Just a quick one, it was Horten with an E.
 

[jim gilmore]

But did horten ever hear a who ?
That show aired 2 years ago when I was in New York.
My understanding is that much of todays actualy ideas came from some of that stuff. And I did work in that industry for Northrop.