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The original story is here with a lot more detail: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane.html http://news.nationa
by russell 17y ago
The original story is here with a lot more detail: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitlers-stealth-fighter-plane.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090625-hitle...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-49 goes into some of the performance and stability issues of the early flying wings. I suspect that a wooden flying wing at 600 mph would have been uncontrollable or subject to airframe failure.
- electromagnetic 17y agoI suspect a large wooden flying wing would have been subject to warping unlike most WW2 planes, which would produce unpredictable behaviour. When your entire plane is a wing, you don't want it changing shape in mid-flight. We're not birds, I doubt many human pilots would be able to intuitively control a plane that changes shape and flight profile during turns.