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built by Northrop Grumman for a NatGeo docco

a fair degree of stealth because it was supposed to be covered with RAM.
I still reckon that it woulda been noisy for the pilot with the engines that close.
How come the Germans never called it the Boomerang?
George, out.................

Things that make u go HMMM!

..because at that stage of the war, they probably wouldn't have come back...

Only 3 made. Only survivor is located at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Paul E. Garber Restoration Facility in Suitland, Maryland, USA.

Hi,

I think none of these ever took to the air. The couple that were built before the war were constructed at the Gothaer Waggonfabrik, hence the "Go-".

It would be interesting to compare the basic design of this Luftwaffe '46er with the Northrop N-9 MA (if you do away with the fact that the motorization of the two is vastly different).

There's a RoG model of the Go-229, BTW.

Cheers,

Patrick Sprau

First flight was on either December 18th, 1944 or February 2nd., 1945 (Pilots log).

More info here =>http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/horten_nurflugels.html

Hi Phill,

thanks for the correction! I always thought the first time these things 'flew' was in SWOTL ('Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe', an epic early '90s flight sim).

Took off & landed - not half bad!

Cheers,

Patrick Sprau

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but seriously given that the lifespan of these early jet engines were a matter of hours, I think all of the bombing raids to New York would have ditched in the Atlantic from engine failure whether due to mechnical causes or from fuel exhaustion.

Pre - fly by wire and computer controlled stability I wonder how it flew without any vertical stabilisers...even the early Northrop flying wings had "fins"