[Scape]

The Horten 2-29

"Hitler's Stealth Fighter" airs Sunday, June 28, at 9 p.m

Video part 1

Video part 2

[WDHIII]

Hey! I flew one of those back when I used to play Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!



Ill have to watch that! Thanks for the heads up Scape!

Edit: just noticed the date .........

[Scape]

I remember that game! I loved flying the Komet and the Dornier 335!

[Canadian_Mind]

Kinda scary what the Nazi's had come up with. Wonder where we would be today if they had won the war in western europe.

[WDHIII]

The Komet was the one that would EXPLODE if ya took ANY hits wasnt it?

I enjoyed flyin the Flying Fortress the best - playin with the Norden Bombsight


That and TRYING to chase down the V1s and 2s with the Mustang!

[SprCForr]

WDHIII wrote:

Hey! I flew one of those back when I used to play Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe!



Ill have to watch that! Thanks for the heads up Scape!

That was the first game I played on my new PC. It blew the C-64 right out of the water.

SWOTL taught me a lot about freeing up memory.

[Scape]

WDHIII wrote:

The Komet was the one that would EXPLODE if ya took ANY hits wasnt it?

I enjoyed flyin the Flying Fortress the best - playin with the Norden Bombsight


That and TRYING to chase down the V1s and 2s with the Mustang!

Lol it was the one that exploded if you landed and you didn't use every last drop of fuel. I love the special suits they had to wear because the fuel would EAT FLESH! What a crazy plane!!

The bombers were a hoot I loved how much damage they could take and still fly. Half the fun was seeing if you could keep it in the sky with one engine.

[WDHIII]

Scape wrote:

WDHIII wrote:

The Komet was the one that would EXPLODE if ya took ANY hits wasnt it?

I enjoyed flyin the Flying Fortress the best - playin with the Norden Bombsight


That and TRYING to chase down the V1s and 2s with the Mustang!

Lol it was the one that exploded if you landed and you didn't use every last drop of fuel. I love the special suits they had to wear because the fuel would EAT FLESH! What a crazy plane!!

The bombers were a hoot I loved how much damage they could take and still fly. Half the fun was seeing if you could keep it in the sky with one engine.

THATS IT! Knew it was somethin like that! Took me a few to figure that out too!

Yeah that and switchin gunner positions as fast as ya could

[sandorski]

wow, wish i'd watched it.

[canuckns]

I loved play SWOTL. Have you guys every played B-17 Flying Fortress - The Mighty 8th? That was bad ass.

[Regina]

WDHIII wrote:

The Komet was the one that would EXPLODE if ya took ANY hits wasnt it?

I enjoyed flyin the Flying Fortress the best - playin with the Norden Bombsight


That and TRYING to chase down the V1s and 2s with the Mustang!

Someone mention a Mustang?

[WDHIII]

STOP THAT!!!!!!!

[Regina]

If I remember correctly, it was a total fluke and not engineered to be "stealth" which is a modern term. Like Northrop, the Nazis were also working on a "Flying Wing" which is what they called them then. It would have been quite the aircraft, which is assuming the flight controls worked well enough to be operational. In reality it would have been many years before it could have dropped a nuke in North America. To start off with Germany wasn't even close enough to having a working nuke, not to mention one small enough to be flown across the ocean. German jet engines of the time were very unreliable and needed many hours of maintenance for every operational hour of flight, which would have made it even more unrealistic to cross an ocean with. Lastly the operational fuel range wasn't there to carry a payload that far.

[Regina]

WDHIII wrote:

STOP THAT!!!!!!!

Stop what??

[Scape]

Regina wrote:

Kelly Johnson who headed up Lockheed's "Skunk Works" and had designed a flying wing was shown a secret model of the B2 Stealth out of respect shortly before he died.

Now that was pure class.