Larry Jacks
26-June-2009, 08:50 PM
I just received this notice (http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009/090624stealth.html?WT.mc_id=&wtmcid;&WT.mc_sect=gan) via AOPA. Since it's very short and it's possible that non-AOPA members may not be able to read it, here's the text:
Hitler’s stealth fighter show to air
By Alton K. Marsh
If you get the National Geographic Channel, you may want to watch “Hitler’s Stealth Fighter” on June 28 at 9 p.m. Working jointly, National Geographic Channel and Northrop Grumman Corp. built a Horten 229 flying wing replica to determine if it had stealth capabilities three decades before the United States.
With the construction and testing completed, the model has gone to the San Diego Air and Space Museum for display. The model was placed on a 50-foot pedestal at a formerly secret location in the Mojave Desert so that it could be hit with radar returns from every angle. Did the wooden aircraft prove to be stealthy? You’ll have to watch.
The U.S. government has hidden a German-built prototype of the flying wing in a warehouse since World War II.
It looks like an interesting program, at least to airplane nuts like me. That last line about the warehouse sounds a little like hype to me. That warehouse belongs to the Smithsonian Institution and holds aircraft awaiting restoration. The sentence as it reads brings to mind the closing scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
If you can get to the linked webpage, they have a short video exerpt from the program.
Hitler’s stealth fighter show to air
By Alton K. Marsh
If you get the National Geographic Channel, you may want to watch “Hitler’s Stealth Fighter” on June 28 at 9 p.m. Working jointly, National Geographic Channel and Northrop Grumman Corp. built a Horten 229 flying wing replica to determine if it had stealth capabilities three decades before the United States.
With the construction and testing completed, the model has gone to the San Diego Air and Space Museum for display. The model was placed on a 50-foot pedestal at a formerly secret location in the Mojave Desert so that it could be hit with radar returns from every angle. Did the wooden aircraft prove to be stealthy? You’ll have to watch.
The U.S. government has hidden a German-built prototype of the flying wing in a warehouse since World War II.
It looks like an interesting program, at least to airplane nuts like me. That last line about the warehouse sounds a little like hype to me. That warehouse belongs to the Smithsonian Institution and holds aircraft awaiting restoration. The sentence as it reads brings to mind the closing scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
If you can get to the linked webpage, they have a short video exerpt from the program.