Hitlers Stealth Bomber Part 5

Vengeful: Inventors Reimar and Walter Horten were inspired to build the Ho 2-29 by the deaths of thousands of Luftwaffe pilots in the Battle of Britain    The 142-foot wingspan bomber was submitted for approval in 1944, and it would have been able to fly from   Berlin to NYC and back without refueling, thanks to the same blended wing design and six BMW 003A or eight Junker Jumo 004B turbojets. He thought the electromagnetic waves of radar would be absorbed, and in conjunction with the aircraft's sculpted surfaces the craft would be rendered almost invisible to radar detectors.This was the same method eventually used by the   U.S. in its first stealth aircraft in the early 1980s, the F-117A Nighthawk.The plane was covered in radar absorbent paint with a high graphite content, which has a similar chemical make-up to charcoal.After the war the Americans captured the prototype Ho 2-29s along with the blueprints and used some of their technological advances to aid their own designs.But experts always doubted claims that the Horten could actually function as a stealth aircraft.Now using the blueprints and the only remaining prototype craft, Northrop-Grumman (the defence firm behind the B-2) built a fullsize replica of a Horten Ho 2-29.