Horten Flying Wing

[Basvarken]

This might be of interest for the WW II aircraft fetishists among us 

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/the-horten-229-v3-flying-wing-amazing-image-collection.html

[Rob]

Great read.  Thanks

[clankenstein]

Whew that's some technology for back then.

[uwe]

I never knew that one of them actually flew back then.

[Granny Gremlin]

They look cool - still not dated even today.  God help you in a ditching situation though, might as well be sitting out on the nose.

[uwe]

Still, a couple of hundred Mustangs and B-17 would have been better for the defense of ze Reich! "Good-enough-technology" is perfectly fine if you have it in sufficient amounts. 

[Psycho Bass Guy]

The Horten was impressive, but Jack Northrop had flying wings in the US before WWII; the Army Air Corps and later Curtis Lemay's Air Force didn't like them, so they were never developed until much later. To pound the point home, the later YB-49, the jet-powered, evolved prototype had ALL of its examples destroyed after losing to the Boeing B-47. Northrop was vindicated before he died when he was taken in secret to Edwards AFB and shown the then still top secret flying wing bomber his namesake company was building for the USAF, the B-2 Spirit.

[lowend1]

We've been here before...
Here ya go gang - Six pages of Outpost repartee at its finest.
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=2568.0

[Highlander]

(killjoy)

[Rob]

Ha!  I'm just happy someone has a great memory.

[Alanko]

Tim Hortons devised a flying wing? Those Canadians are smarter than I thought!

[Rob]

Tim Hortons devised a flying wing? Those Canadians are smarter than I thought!

[Barklessdog]

Was that a band from high school?

[Pilgrim]