Comments on: Horton 229: Hitler’s Nazi Stealth Jet was too little too late (28 photos)

By: jais live

jais live — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:29:02 +0000

Thats why he had to kill himself after his fantasy ended. May Hitler burn in hell forever

By: Always Last

Always Last — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Last!!!

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:31:23 +0000

Again no carbon coating was ever used on this plane. Not a stealth plane at all.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:26:50 +0000

This was absolutley not a stealth aircraft it had no carbon fiber in it it was made from fiberglass and wood if you watched the documentary on this plane you would know that when it was tested it lit up like a Christmas tree. Do you see those 2 big engines on either side of the cockpit those alone make this plane light up on radar.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:53:35 +0000

German technology by the end of the war was staggeringly advanced, including the near-functional Ho-229, jet fighters, and the trans-Atlantic Amerika bomber. If Hitler hadn't made the stunningly bad decision to invade the Soviet Union, all of those squandered resources would have been put into R&D for this stuff, and it's anyone's guess how the war would've turned out.
The Ho-229 had a carbon coating that made it very much an early stealth plane. There is speculation that the 9 objects that Kenneth Arnold saw in 1947, which started the whole modern "flying saucer" craze, were actually Hoo-229s developed by the US using the German plans and prototype. Arnold's original description of the objects fits the 229 perfectly.

By: bongboy

bongboy — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:27:19 +0000

Now we know what Hitler’s wonder weapon was. If this is what they had in the 40′s, Oh we gots some badass shit now.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:26:55 +0000

@Dave,

There was a program on in the UK just the other day about the Horton 229.

The did fly the first one created, but it had engine trouble and crashed. The pictures on this site are the second one which was never completed, due to the end of the War.

By: Superfly

Superfly — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:00:31 +0000

yea i think Nazi germany was the advanced generation due to there ability to make technology way above there generation if they were still around today would be great to see what type of jets bombers and missles they would have created today

By: dave

dave — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:00:39 +0000

did they fly it? Way cool.

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:54:37 +0000

Yes, another magnificent GERMAN design copied by the USA.

Germany gets a bumm rap, Uncle Adolf was just trying to clean up the world of all its geneic refuse

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:09:28 +0000

I like sauerkraut
But I like jews too :I

By: Speeder

Speeder — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:11:41 +0000

Robin Yates, Not just years. Generations ahead.

By: Speeder

Speeder — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:05:59 +0000

MST4K, it WAS a world's first stealth plane. Due to it's blended wing design witout tail wing it was almost invisible to radar. It was actually a surprise for Horton brothers. After noticing Horton's 229 stealth capalibities they developed them even futher.

By: MST4K

MST4K — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:07:04 +0000

This wasn't a stealth plane, it was just a blended wing design. An incredible leap forward in the evolution of aircraft yes, but not a stealth plane.

By: mr187

mr187 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:34:52 +0000

i was in oki japan at the airforce base in 1986 and was in total aw over the b-2 bomber at that time and to this day had no idea that this was a german ripoff, and so are most of our rocket technology …. i guess some advantages to war is that you get rip ur enemies off and kidnapp there scientists and take full credit for great inventions abroad lol!

By: mr187

mr187 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:31:14 +0000

lucky this did not get into mass production or this wouldve changed the game we'd all be eating sour kraut today!