The German Flying Phantoms (1945)

About the Horten Ho IX, a stealth similar bomberplane with jet engines, the first one actually leaving the drawing-board for the skies, and about other German phantoms of the air towards the end of the war.

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• German
• Military
• Aviation
• Science
• WW2
• 1945

[Kirel1942]

It is either misleading or ignorant to call this "the prototype of the stealth." Have any of you people ever heard of Jack Northrop, who produced workable flying wings years before the much ballyhooed Horten? In fact, interest in the flying wing configuration was widespread well before World War 2. Northrop's XB-35, 15 times larger than the Horten, was in advanced design during the war and flew in 1946. It had good stealth qualities as well and that is the real origin of the B-2.

[toretreskjegg]

@Kirel1942 Okay, okay I alter the description:

About the Horten Ho IX, a stealth similar bomberplane with jet engines, the first one actually leaving the drawing-board for the skies, and about other German phantoms of the air towards the end of the war.

[TheFreakGermany]

germany had build an UFO

this is not a fake !!!!!!!!!

it gives a doku about this one

the nazis had the best technologie ever

but the USA steel all this ...

sorry for bad english

[erdkampfnuss]

@Kirel1942

First flying wing that actually flew was the hang glider by the austrian ignaz etrich in 1903.

The Horten brothers started experimenting with flying wings as glider and propeller versions in 1933.

Jack Northrop started experimenting in 1940.

Northrop and the Hortens both influenced the B2.

Sources:

Nurflügel, The history of the horten flying wings 1933-1960 by R. Horten and P. Selinger

Flying Wings - the history of the flying wing by R. Storck

[trimode11]

@natsplit

8,8 cm Flugabwehrk. konnte den KV1 auf normale Entfernung knacken !!

Oder 7,5cm Pak 40

T 34 Gegner : Panther Tiger ....... sogar Kpfw. 4 mit Upgrade ( 7,5cm )

Die unglubliche Massenfertigung des T-34 war sein Plus !!

[1mezzomix]

The english Radar have found this weapon in 15 m over the sea/erath

Whean 1 min and 30 sec. from englang away the neglish fightes don't have starting when the Horton9 ist came.

PS: sry for my bad english ^^ i must learn more i comes fro germany and german is a friendly COuntry today

[DordogneAnglais]

Channel 4 in UK broadcast a long documentary all about this Horten plane last year. I think they were building a replica in US.

[Greenhornet270]

I suspect the Me163 was the first plane to break the sound barrier.

[shagrat7]

@Kirel1942 I think it is brilliant when people have such expert knowledge that they can confidently correct widespread misconceptions with accurate information. However, frustrating as it must be to read a post made in ignorance by a naive enthusiast, I find it undermines the intelligence of the expert when they write in an arrogant, condescending or patronising manner. Kudos for your knowledge on the origin of stealth aircraft.

[geertwildersful]

GERMAN ENGINEERS WERE THE BEST!!!!

[natsplit]

@osnajo

Mit Sicherheit nicht.

Was hatten die Russen den beim Überfall der Wehrmacht? T-34, KV1, PPSH...

Was hatten die Deutschen? PzKpfw III.

Es gab KEINE deutsche Waffe die den KV1 zerstören konnte.

Und der T-34 war schneller als jeder deutsche Panzer, besser gepanzert, und hatte mehr Feuerkraft.

[osnajo]

schon mal aufgefallen - das wir die besten hatten -

panzer

u-boote

flugzeuge

handfeuer waffen

und raketen oder ähnliches

hatte die gegner ja wohl kaum - oder?

bis heute - profitieren die amis - und die russen von unserem wissen

[HolgerLovesMusic]

@barotje nope, germany had no basic materials and no fuel.

[soibon]

The best submarine(XXI)the first rockets and first operational stream airplanes....

Bye the way,the Americans took every German scientist to the USA,with all plans..

the russian did it too,the 2.series of scientists.