Hitler’s Stealth Fighter?
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Get ready: Sunday June 28 on National Geographic is a program called Hitler’s Stealth Fighter.
The National Geographic News webpage ran a story (gee, do you think there’s a connection?) on this program, complete with pictures.
Northrop Grumman, in California, got a look at the only surviving Horten 2-29, aka Hitler’s Stealth Fighter. It has been kept locked away in a warehouse near Washington, DC, for fifty years, untouched. Northrop Grumman built a (non-working) mockup of the plane for this show. I have to admit that the pictures are full of gee-whiz splendor.
The original, in less than stellar shape, looks like something out of Star Wars. It was discovered to have a layer of carbon in it, which experts think couldn’t be for anything other than evading detection (stealth).
Operation Seahorse took place in the closing days of World War II. Many high-tech pieces of equipment were crated and shipped to the US. This was concurrent with Operation Paperclip, in which high-tech scientists (and psychopaths) were crated and shipped to the US. This is how we got Werner Von Braun. It is also how we got certain forms of mind control.
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It’s a very interesting and brief article, which I recommend reading or watching when it comes on television. However, something isn’t passing the Smell Test<tm> for me. I have no trouble believing Operation Seahorse shipped top secret technology to the US. I do have trouble, however, believing that it sat, untouched, in a warehouse for fifty years.
Unless it was judged worthless as soon as it was uncrated.
Let’s face it: our scientists and engineers had to have been all over these high tech pieces of equipment, looking for secrets, knowledge, or a small edge over the competition (at that time, Russia was snapping up the German scientists and psychopaths also).
Other pieces of equipment are alleged to have come from this operation or period in time. There are all sorts of fantastic stories of advanced flying machines and even craft that resembled modern day ufo’s arriving from Germany.
So only now they are discovering carbon in the plane’s construction?
I’m not buying.
Watch and judge for yourself.
2 Comments
Gary Hethcoat
June 28th, 2009
at 1:54pm
I don’t think anyone implied that allied intelligence personnel never examined the Ho 229 after its capture. You can be sure they did, to whatever extent they could using techniques of the time. They did in fact finish some work and assemble the airframe. At least one of the outer wing panels was skinned *after* the war. It was never flown, however.
When they were done with it, it did in fact collect dust for many, many years. Unfortunately it was stored outdoors in a wooden crate for many years, which is the reason it is in rough shape.
Gary Hethcoat
ATTICUS
July 5th, 2009
at 2:30pm
I just saw a rebroadcast of this NatGeo program, and am surprised that they would try and market it as an investigation of an example of early “stealth technology” on the part of the Nazi regime. The Horten brothers were interested in tail-less aircraft, nothing more. The reason that it was made of wood was the same reason that the DeHaviland Mosquito was made of wood (used less vital strategic materials). No one would ever suggest that the Mosquito was built with stealth in mind, right? That the HO229 aircraft was “stealthy” is just a co-incidence of the construction process. As for the “dramatic re-creation” of the Horten’s having an audience with Goering, and somehow insinuating that the Reichsmarschall was interested in defeating British radar is ridiculous! If the Nazi’s were convinced that radar was the reason that they had lost the Battle of Britian then why didn’t they just bomb the daylights out of the radar installations until the RAF was blind, THEN attack other targets. This sort of programming springs from the “fertile” minds of those who have NO appreciation for real history, and are just interested in pushing a sensational idea in order to get ratings. That the HO229 was an innovative aircraft that was steps ahead of anything the Allies had was more than reason enough to produce a TV program about it. We don’t need the false history or made up sensationalizim. It does not speak well of National Geographic.