Horton 229

[pervert]

I know theres gonna be a lot of criteria here that says no no no, but I will bet it would be a huge marketing point for the game, would love to see how this would perform, plane has a lot of mystic surrounding it as well very interesting plane. Obviously if yes perked to the moon, but I would love to see how this would turn out if HTC modelled it properly, the flight model in IL2 was a very generic one, apparently it was easily pushed into unrecoverable stalls only the computers solved that one in time.

Its time to get silly people 

[titanic3]

you smell.

[pervert]

you smell.

[Denniss]

Nitpicking: Horten Ho 229, engine air intakes are too far forward on the image/screenshot

[Ack-Ack]

Nitpicking: Horten Ho 229, engine air intakes are too far forward on the image/screenshot

It may just be the angle of the Ho 229 in that image.  This is a photo of the Hi 229 replica that Northrop built in 2008 to test the stealth qualities of the H0 229 and the engine air takes look like their in the same position in the image posted by pervert.



ack-ack

[titanic3]

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[bortas1]

  yall see the nat geo ep on this plane? very interesting.

[Krusty]

The one promoting it as a super modern super fantastic stealth bomber?

It was full of utter BS, that entire program. Not sure who the heck greenlit that project, but he's better off doing programs on bigfoot -- they have more accuracy and fact in them than what they churned out on the Horton.

[Ack-Ack]

The one promoting it as a super modern super fantastic stealth bomber?

It was full of utter BS, that entire program. Not sure who the heck greenlit that project, but he's better off doing programs on bigfoot -- they have more accuracy and fact in them than what they churned out on the Horton.

You do know that it was the company Northrop that built and did the tests in 2008, correct?

ack-ack

[Krusty]

I recall, yes. Doesn't negate most of the bullpoop quasi-propoganda that has been put out by NatGeo, Discovery, History channels. The plane was an failure. It never would have worked. It already failed to meet the 3x1000 criteria called for in the first place (1000kg carried 1000km at 1000kph). Further, the (tail-less) flying wing concept, much like the forward swept wing designs, were far too unstable for high performance aircraft until the advent of mircroprocessing and fly-by-wire control setups. Nothrop did their own research and had their own designs and experience with flying wings leading up to the B-2 bomber and beyond (drones, etc), but we still find BS claims that the Horton was the first ever stealth bomber, just like the B-2 (blah blah blah -- insert bad television programming here).

[Denniss]

Stealth - or better reduced RCS - was just a side-effect of the construction form but not intended during development.

[MiloMorai]

Watching that show required a big baling bucket and hip waders.

[Reaper90]

Krusty, not saying you're not correct in your position, but could you share with us some of the information you have access to concerning the problems with the Ho 229? I've looked and looked, and everything I've found only talks of several somewhat successful test flights, albeit with mishaps that were blamed on pilot error, and the eventual destruction of one of the prototypes in a crash caused by an engine failure.

Do you have any links you can share with us?

Again, not arguing with you, just looking for information.

And +1 to adding this to the game, but only in an "Area 51" arena that also has the Claw, super RV8s, and flying sharks with frickin lasers on their frickin heads.

[icepac]

I used to walk past it often back in the day.

It actually looks more impressive missing it's "wings".

[Bino]

I recall, yes. Doesn't negate most of the bullpoop quasi-propoganda that has been put out by NatGeo, Discovery, History channels...

An old friend of mine worked for many years at the History Channel head office in NYC.  According to her, the Suits had absolutely no interest in the subject matter, only the ad revenues, and regularly vetoed her requests to fact-check the shows.  The Suits would've been happy to create the "Knitting Channel" if they thought they could make money at it.

BTW, the Suits really hated whenever anyone called it the "Hitler Channel", so of course, all the employees regularly did.