Some of the world's top stealth-aircraft experts admire their handiwork—a full-size replica of the Horten 2-29. A Northrop Grumman team tested this re-creation of "Hitler's stealth fighter" against World War II-style radar and determined that—intentionally or not—the Nazi plane would truly have been radar resistant. Photograph by Linda Reynolds/Flying Wing Films From National Geographic:
Top stealth-plane experts have re-created a radical, nearly forgotten Nazi aircraft: the Horten 2-29, a retro-futuristic fighter that arrived too late in World War II to make it into mass production.
The engineers' goal was to determine whether the so-called stealth fighter was truly radar resistant. In the process, they've uncovered new clues to just how close Nazi engineers were to unleashing a jet that some say could have changed the course of the war.
To replicate the Ho 2-29 late last year for a documentary premiering Sunday, a team from the Northrop Grumman defense-contracting corporation used original Nazi blueprints (see re-created blueprints of Hitler's stealth fighter) and the only surviving Ho 2-29, which has been stored in a U.S. government facility for more than 50 years.
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