Heiner's Horten Ho 229 at Porz 19/8/2007

Heiner's superb Horten filmed on the 19 August at Porz. The landing broke a link in the front panding strut, but no other damage

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[ozeangruen]

put Nazis/ KKK aside. It´s the technical invention which is amazing

[21Laser]

Thank God that Hitler was a micro manager that did not know what he was doing! No matter what, you cannot deny that the Germans had advanced aerodynamics that, if allowed to develop, would have been a disaster to Allied forces.

An example of technology that given a few months (perhaps a year) would have been the end for the Allies. Thank God that things turned out the way that they did.

[1greenMitsi]

@hocuspokus1

1.shell optimacht

2.Hitler himself (or at leat Eva)

3.Recycled volkswagen beetles

[hocuspokus1]

@1greenMitsi

Really?

Flying with what for fuel? (seeing as the allies had destroyed the German synthetic fuel plants & Germany was cut off from outside supplies by 1945 not to mention that the entire heavy transport infrastructure was utterly destroyed by 1945).

Flown by who? (seeing as German pilot training was brught to an almost total standstill by swarms of allied fighters roaming Germany at will).

Made from what? (seeing as German material stocks were exhausted by 1945)

[hocuspokus1]

@yourmomwasherelol

No they didn't.

Northrop (like a few others) were developing their own flying wing designs at the same time as the Horten brothers (the first Northrop flying wing flew in 1940).

Just because it has a vague shape similar to the B2 is no reason to im agine any actual connection between the 2.

Northrop's own flying wings are the B2's true roots, not a German prototype which flew a handful of hours.

[1greenMitsi]

@jeffsech the atomic bomb would have been dropped out of an American plane...which would have been shot down by a 229 before reaching germany...

[jeffsech]

@21Laser Agreed, German technology was admirable and ahead of its time. But given the extension of the war in Europe by those same few months you mention, and no one now would know the names of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because the U.S. atomic bomb would have been used in August 1945--on Berlin.

[19127]

The Soviets had 12.5 million men under arms at the time they invaded Germany. This aircraft would have slowed them a bit but would not have saved Germany. Even today, wars are ultimately decided on the ground.

[inagod]

11 feet wing span wow,beautiful aircraft.

[ZeroGravity99]

Ein wunderschönes Modell. Nach welchen Bauplänen wurde dieses gebaut? Gibt's da nähere Infos?

[yourmomwasherelol]

@cityhunterhf hell yea northrop grumman copied this

[cityhunterhf]

damn! B-2 is a copy of this!!