OT: Horten Ho 229...father of B-2?

[muamshai]

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[plug pray]

Kinda yes. A grandfather, i'd say)

[Guest IguanaKing]

Its a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" story. Jack Northrop envisioned a flying wing design in the late 1920's...the Horten brothers did the same in the early 1930's.

[ARM505]

Didn't the -229 have radar absorbent paint or something like that as well? (Or was supposed to have when produced). Apart from using a great deal of wood in the construction as well - primitive stealth! So maybe it's a grandfather in more ways than one...

[Guest IguanaKing]

Many Japanese fighters and bombers ALSO used wood in their construction. Yup...it was stealth...before radar was even all that effective. It seems almost like how the RoadRunner was immune to the laws of gravity...because he never read them. ;)