How the Nazis Designed a B-2 Stealth Bomber Way Before the United States 

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I remember that one- the point was less 'revolutionize military aviation' and more 'make oneself valuable to the new conquerors'

It was an accidental design feature that they noticed later. Which is why interest in the flying wing design picked back up again

@@MausTanker actually no. A stealthier version was built by some historians and scientists (stealthier because they used no steel like the original did) and was found to still be detectable by the chain home radar (what the British used in the battle of Britain), with it only being marginally less detectable than a fw 190.

@@jayburn00 and where did you find that info?

@@MausTanker northrop Grumman and Smithsonian. I have seen the original cockpit section recovered in operation paperclip by the way, it's kept at Udvar-Hazy (part of the Smithsonian Air and space Museum) near Washington-Dulles International Airport. Also a discovery channel documentary about the test itself (may have been a different channel actually, it was a while ago). A good summary is provided by lazerpig though, including how it's final configuration wasn't even from the horten brothers (I didn't know that). Lazerpig does a good job addressing a lot of the claims about it.

@@jayburn00 Of course Lazerpig was going to be mentioned. Surprised he doesn't have his own TV show at this point.

Invisible and gravity defying

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Just don't be imagining too hard, unless you want Uncle Sam knocking on your door to ask you for your thoughts on things.

You mean on their lunar base on the dark side of the moon?

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They most likely already have 😂 there’s already plastic type of shields that bends light to make you basically invisible. It wouldn’t be hard to do something like that on an airplane. It’s all about bending light to replicate what’s on the other side and you have invisibility

@@videogamez3238 Most likely, they're just not talking about it.

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@@official_pol2198 the thing about invisibility is that you don’t need to be invisible to be invisible. We have long made invisible planes already. If it’s undetectable and has the trace of a bee in the sky then it’s invisible. True invisibility is really not needed

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He explains that in the 2nd half of the vid.

that’s what he said…

That’s what he said

That’s what he said…

He did say that it wasn't a stealth bomber, he said the stealth bomber is based off the German plane

@@SushiEater44 thats not what the title says…

No this title belongs to the Etrichs glider from 1903

There were many other working on flying wings including those in england france and Germany Northrop was not the first tho his design ideas are used in almost everything now adays Also the n1m and n9m were flying scale models of the yb35 that had the same wing span of the b2

its speculated if the horten 229 gave the designers of the B-2 some inspiration, because the Horten was stored in a hangar near northrop grumman.

@@Marco187Polo look up Northrop n1m and n9m both flying scale models of the yb35 ment for testing stability of the design Also the horton x was the last of the brothers designs to fly The gotha v2 was the only of the 229 version to take flight and killed its pilot after an engine failed on a later test flight The gotha v3 is the one at the Smithsonian and the data they provide shows clearly it was not stealthy

@@Marco187Polo Northrop had been working on flying wings well before the capture of the HO229, the Horton being stored vaguely near Northrop does not mean that the B2 was inspired by the HO229 namely because they already had been working on flying wings without the HO229 for years

The n1m and n9m scale version of the yb35 that has the same wing span of the b2

He also said that the world’s first fighter jet was the Me 262 so I wouldn’t trust what our mate says. The first fighter jet was the single seater Bell P-59. And while it never actually saw combat; the Me 262 still wasn’t the first. Heinkel’s He 178 was the first fighter to see combat.

@@MythicalChimera 0/2 man. The me 262 flew before the airacomet and the he 178 never saw combat, it was a testbed for the first German jet engine. The first purpose built jet fighter was the he 280, however it wasn’t chosen for production.

Still Germans were and still are to this day famous for their engineer and construction skills. In WW2 everyone was fearing German Panzer tanks as those couldn't even be destroyed by any missile available on the battlefield. Russians if they wanted to take them out the only option was to use a tank and ram it from a side in order to destroy it's wheels and the belt to put it out of the fight. Germans also developed destructive rockets V-1 and ultimately V-2 and used them to rocket London all the way from Netherlands and that was something new on the battlefield. And much more. Both Soviet Union and the US when the war was over were desperate to locate and steal German intelligence/scientists and make them work for them

@@chmatacek there are so many holes in what you just said.

They did end up saying that later in the video, but the title is really clickbait.

@@kommandantkillcode the good old click bait.

Exactly. Northrop been experimenting with flying wings before the Horton Brothers did. The B2 has nothing to do with the Horton Brother's project.

yo, i thought i needed to comment this but you got to it first. btw lazerpig is the best

You're right besides it wasn't really a stealth bomber back until years later. It was originally use for better development on aviation for the military, along with other aircrafts. They just happen to inspire this to America.

Lots of bad info here.

@@borla4491 cope and seethe. They had nothing to do with the Wright Brothers, yeah?

Heß brothers.

That’s what he said

how far back exactly?

@@louiewaddington Glider designs resembling flying wings have been in existence prior to powered flight.

Jack Northrop was exploring flying wings around the same time and his became much more developed. Also, Jack Northrop's designs were mostly for bombers, and two of them actually got to production prototype stage (designated by a Y prefix instead of an X) while the only combat capable horten flying wing that reached the prototype stage was designed to be a fighter and was never tested with weapons for attacking ground targets. Northrop's flying wings were in competition with the then YB-36 Peacemaker and other conventional bomber designs. Unfortunately, the flying wing is difficult to fly without the not yet developed fly-by-wire controls at that time, which partly contributed to the more conventional designs being chosen for full production. There were two major prototypes from Northrop, one with propellers (meant to be a long range strategic bomber) and the other with jet engines (same airframe mostly, higher speed but much shorter range). One of them actually flew over DC at one point as part of a celebration (possibly 4th of July, forget the details). There were proposals for a horten flying wing bomber, but it was never fully designed, and the design proposals they had would not have been stealthy either (engines were mounted externally on pods similar to modern airliners).

There was also the flying pancake by the way. Not exactly a flying wing, but it was inspired partly by the same ideas that originally inspired the flying wings of the WW2 period (achieving greater lift without greater drag). In some ways, it actually did better in this regard. Also, the flying pancake demonstrated that the allies were actually ahead in some aspects of aircraft technology: the Germans tried to develop a similar aircraft, but were unable to figure out how to unlock the benefits of that configuration while the US did. The solution was actually simple, involving the use of a pair of large counter rotating propellers spinning opposite to the direction of vortex drag. Interestingly, some official design documents took a page from da Vinci and have the propellers spinning the wrong direction.

It want pland but some tests shows that it worked as a stealt plane

@@MimeHTF5 NASA did a test it really wasn't

@@toasterwolf97 Yes but with modern radar systems

@@MimeHTF5 they did it with british ww2 radar. It was barely stealthier than a conventional airplane of the time.

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They cannot be flown without computers. Virtually impossible.

@@nailers99 ...or designed. Wasn't until the advent of the supercomputer that the rcs of a plane could be calculated from every angle.

Lazerpig explained the Horten bomber perfectly.

@@roblockhart6104 "Supercomputer", do you care to define that would? The phone that almost everyone that's watched this video has more computing power than the machines that calculated the RCS of the B2.

@@trplankowner3323 sort of a moot point. We are not using our phones to solve differential equations, linear algebra, or vector calculus. That cell phone didn't just drop out of thin air. It had analog to digital origins, systems precursors, foundational beginnings. Soviet Russia allowed Ufimtsev to publish his findings/research because at the time, they had no way of better utilizing the application, nor understanding, of its potential. They didn't invest in computational technology's like the US did, i.e. internet, supercomputers. Primitive by today's standards, yes, but served as the genesis of the tech industry you enjoy and depend on everyday.

Nope, there many others befor northrop and also a german guy. And they werent ahead of the horten brothers lol.

@@Future183 Are you referring to John W Dunn's flying wings (D.5, D.8, and AH-7) of 1910, 1913, and 1914 respectively? Most likely not, since you don't even know who he was.

@@zanenobbs352 nope. What i meant with , there are many other is that nearly every country had some guy with the idea of an flying wing

Yeah he said that at the start you goose

You’re literally now just encouraging them to rip off others along with the misinformation they’re spreading: Mark Felton did this very video like last week man

@Moon Pirate her parents are from Armenia i think

And they all got an tech boost after they discovered german tech after ww2 and kidnapped german scientists, esspecially in terms of rocket engineering

Non of them had worked for the USA or the USSR

@@MimeHTF5 never said they did. However I do think they either went to the UK or Argentina. Possibly they could have visited the US but found nothing for themselves there.

They went to china or the ccp to sell there design and they advertised it as a stealth plane by using a mixture

Still wrong

We are talking about real life here

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Northrop tested a replica of the Ho229 and confirmed it had reduced RCS (Radar Cross Section), while the Germans did not intend for it to be stealthy, it's design gave it a lower RCS which means the RAF would have less reaction time.

The 229 did fly, but not 3rd Version which was the one that they were planning on producing in higher numbers compared to the other versions.

@@kommandantkillcode only gotha v2 flew and killed its pilot when a engine failed The brothers had designed there plane around engines that were never built and gotha reworked the design starting with another glider the v1 then a powered v2 and the armed v3 The v3 is the one at the Smithsonian now

@@thomascooley2749 I knew that. I was talking about the fact that the Powered 229 did fly, but the whole project (including the V3) was never finished.

@@kommandantkillcode so then your aware the brothers never built a flying powered version gotha did

@@thomascooley2749 The brothers did build the version 2, and from what I’ve seen it was with Gotha’s help. Gotha tried to develop something else based off of the 229, but that didn’t go past the mockup stage.

That Battle of England was a real banger. 😆😆 😂 😂

Not the "nazis". Germans. And after the war, when the americans discovered the horten, they indeed got inspired.

@@Future183 When they did it was jus a piece of wood and wouldn’t work all as a stealth bomber gets your facts right.

@@isaiahkayode6526 it's about the design and not what it's made off, better u get your facts right.

@@Future183 You sure the americans were not inspired by the other flying wing aircraft made before the WW2? Or.. did you not bother checking that any existed??

@@aldgate yes but esspecially by the germans cause of the way the germans engineered and designed certain things, thats what the germans are known for.

No wonder America brought many of them.

@@daryljosephsajulga4912 true

+@Tam0de The Horten brothers sought asylum in several countries including the US but were denied.

Northrop was a person.