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Old 05-06-2012, 04:31 PM
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I'm not sure about the prototypes but a early ejector seat was meant to be fitted to a number of German jets to avoid some of these problems. The Do335 is by far the most dangerous in my mind to bail out of... explosive bolts were to be set off as part of the bail out procedure to separate the tail section and rear propeller.

It's interesting that the Go229 has some stealth related properties but it's not the only aircraft of WWII to have that. Other wooden aircraft of the period (notably the Mosquito) were discovered to have smaller signatures on radar than metal aircraft of the same size.

The Horten brothers were glider designers and the Go229 embodies much of that glider design philosophy.. having no tail was a big thing for them.

I'm not sure what the Go229 would have been like in actual combat... it's not easy to handle in IL-2 and I imagine the real life version would be even more unnerving.
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Old 05-06-2012, 08:27 PM
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The real-life version crashed after one engine burned out. Presumably the yaw of asymmetric thrust was too much for the air-brake control system.

If the Go-229 was stealth, it probably wasn't designed to be stealth...they just got lucky.
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Old 05-06-2012, 11:18 PM
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To be fair, this was still relatively early on in the whole revolution of flight, and the accelerated development pace during wartime didn't lend itself well to thorough and safe testing. The compressibility issue comes to mind.
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