The Black Vault

Hmmm the second shot looks a lil like the stealth, not as boxy though.


cool find John.






BloodStone...

Looks a lot like a Boeing X-45C. Possibly its the larger Boeing Phantom Ray.


http://www.gizmag.com/boeing-to-develop ... 45c/11636/
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/200 ... 0719s.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-45

looks like a stealth to me...kind or nose left with wheels down..

why are the dam photo's aways fuzzy...


bluz

That's what that Nazi jet was guys, early stealth.

They were working on stealth decades before us, and doing a damn fine job of it.

It's wierd how you keep on seeing old Nazi aircraft popping up...

jack northrop was working on the wing at the same time the nazi's where..

in fact his size figures on wing span are exactly what
the stealth bomber is using today.

if they had computors in his day the wing would have been flying in the 40s
withour any control issues at all..

bluz

Actually it wasn't a computer problem that stopped the early Northrop wing it was a problem with getting the bombs to fall out of it correctly, and the single crash, the rest of the production line aircraft were ordered scrapped by the govt. and rumor has it Jack even unsucessfully tried to hide one.

Ah nice, I'm rusty on my military history. I thought he started in the 60's

Did the Germans not made a jet bomber of that shape that actually flew though? I know I read that the B-2 would not be able to be piloted by a human because of the way the control surfaces manipulate the attitude of the aircraft, it's too unconventional... But I had thought that the germans made one. Hold on I'll look up the model name....

Here we go. The Go-229. Was this plane actually produced and flown?


Good find John, in my personal opinion it doesn't look like the B-2, the proportions aren't right.

The Germans made a fighter plane that flew a couple times before a crash the Horton Ho. IX/Ho. 229/Gotha 229.

However, One of The Horton brothers did make a single flying wing of sorts for Argentina the DINFIA IA/IAE 38 Naranjero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Ae._38_Naranjero
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Hort ... ugels.html