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Offline Nemisis

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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2009, 07:29:53 PM »
Quote from: Karnak on October 05, 2009, 07:10:10 PM
Nope, it did not have a smaller signature.  That is pure, unbridled, myth.


I KNOW for a fact that there was one plane during WWII that had a reduced radar signature, can anyone fill me in?
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2009, 07:38:07 PM »
How do you know there was a plane with a reduced radar signature and not know the plane?
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2009, 08:52:20 PM »
Quote from: Nemisis on October 05, 2009, 07:29:53 PM

I KNOW for a fact that there was one plane during WWII that had a reduced radar signature, can anyone fill me in?
Yeh, this one:
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2009, 08:54:15 PM »
Quote from: Enker on October 05, 2009, 08:52:20 PM
Yeh, this one:
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Well it WAS a flying wing, but it was a single wing aircraft...
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2009, 11:39:42 PM »
Quote from: Karnak on October 05, 2009, 07:10:10 PM
Nope, it did not have a smaller signature.  That is pure, unbridled, myth.
:aok I'm going with Karnak because I was actually under the impresion that it gave a fairly large signature.
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2009, 01:35:21 AM »
Quote from: phatzo on October 05, 2009, 11:39:42 PM
:aok I'm going with Karnak because I was actually under the impresion that it gave a fairly large signature.
So far as I know it was just a normal one for an aircraft its size.  It is a long standing myth that it was hard to see on radar.  I believe the British thought it might be so in WWII but in post war exercises where RAF officers watched German radar operators track a staged incoming raid they had no problem tracking the Mosquitoes.
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2009, 01:58:01 AM »
Also, it was such a successful night fighter because the pilots ate a lot of carrots
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2009, 07:24:50 AM »
Quote from: Enker on October 05, 2009, 08:52:20 PM
Yeh, this one:
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"Primarily designed as a fighting plane?"

That's some serious Hubris, right there.
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2009, 03:15:22 PM »
Quote from: Nemisis on October 05, 2009, 07:29:53 PM

I KNOW for a fact that there was one plane during WWII that had a reduced radar signature, can anyone fill me in?

Possibly the Go 229.



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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2009, 06:27:54 PM »
Quote from: Bronk on October 06, 2009, 03:15:22 PM
Possibly the Go 229.

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THERE, thats it..... Thanks bronk. Might not be the same plane unless you hit "G" instead of "H" (I thought it was a Horton built plane), but looks simmilar.
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2009, 03:08:09 PM »
actually it is Ho 229.

(wasnt it started by the horton brothers then shifted to Gotha due to lack of manufacturing tools for mass production? guess i could search....)
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Re: a cool mossie feature
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2009, 04:30:43 PM »
One might get the idea of the Mossie being invisible to radar due to the way it was used operationally. Because of its high speed the Mossie besides medium altitude mission  used in low altitude operations so that they could penetrate enemy air space without being picked up on radar.  Two examples would be the Ameins Prison Raid and the Gestapo Headquarters Raid in Copenhagen.  
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