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Re: Horten 229: What is real, what is exaggeration?
I don't think stealth was a design aim, just a byproduct of the aerodynamics and wooden construction. There was no apparent effort to reduce observability in relation to the intakes, exhausts or u/c doors, as seen on the F-117 for example. Also (IIRC) the aircraft had unresolved stability problems which likewise afflicted the later Northrop flying wing bombers. It took computers and modern flight software to overcome that kind of thing — and it wasn't available in 1945.
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