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Old 05-05-2012, 03:42 PM
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Default The Horten wing plane Ho 2-29 had stealh capabilities

That's at least what they say in this National Geographic documentary:

"To determine once and for all whether the Ho 2-29 had stealth capabilities, experts first examined the surviving 2-29 and probed it with a portable radar unit based on World War II radar tech.

Then, in the fall and winter of 2008, they set about building the full-scale re-creation at a restricted-access Northrop Grumman testing facility in California's Mojave Desert.

The construction team embraced historic materials and techniques, and the Horten 2-29 replica, like the original, is made largely of wood and bonded with glue and nails.

Unlike the original, however, the replica wasn't built to fly, though it did soar, after a fashion.

The new craft's body was constructed around a rotor, which allowed the replica to be manipulated atop a five-story-tall column. There, in January 2009, the craft was subjected to World War II-style radar."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ter-plane.html

3D model:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...-fighter-3942/

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