Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!purdue!gatech!amdcad!military From: garth!dole@unix.sri.com (Harry Dole) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: History of stealth technology Message-ID: <27532@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 07:12:55 GMT References: <27110@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: cdr@amdcad.AMD.COM Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 27 Approved: military@amdcad.amd.com From: garth!dole@unix.sri.com (Harry Dole) In article <27110@amdcad.AMD.COM> willey@arrakis.nevada.edu (James Willey) writes: >------ The design dates back to 1945, when >two brothers, Walter and Reimar Horten, who worked with the secret >Luftwaffe group Sonderkommando 9, set out to build a "super-Mosquito" >to counter the stealth capabilities of the British Mosquito. The >British Mosquito was constructed out of plywood, spruce,and balsa, >which added to its speed and its small radar signature. The German >design was a flying wing powered by two jet engines. The only >prototype to fly crashed in early 1945 when an engine failed. A >prototype that never flew currently resides at the National Air and >Space Museum's storage complex at Silver Hill, Md. The Chino air museum near LA has a WWII German flying wing hanging from their ceiling. I had thought that plane had flown but am not sure. Also, I do not recall it being a two engine model as it was quite small. There was no landing gear but a landing skid made of wood. Other items of interest are a Japanese rocket plane modelled after a German plane (Komet, I believe) and a combination jet and propellor plane, circa late 40's. All info here is subject to memory failure as it is not derived from written sources.