Filed under: musea | Tags: ho-229, let's liveblog, nasm, nazis!, paul e garber prsf, science fiction, why are you doing this to me
10:04: Well, that ending was terrible. Seriously, a Nazi stealth bomber? Even my dad thought that was bullshit.
9:50: ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads iphone ad
9:48: Has anybody talked up the “legend of the Nazi stealth fighter” before this program? I know I’d never heard of it before.
9:47: I wonder if there are different plans for riggin’ a plane for a radar test range and for hanging in a museum?
9:45: The premise of this program is revealed – “I wonder if it really is stealthy. I mean, it looks stealthy to me.”
9:44: Oh, c’mon, it’s not like out-dogfighting a Me-262 is tough. Things could fly fast in a straight line, but they couldn’t turn for shit.
9:42: Shit, the Germans are expecting a NUKE
9:41: They keep saying “generations ahead” but I mean the YB-49 only flew in ’47 and the 229 flew for the first time in December ’44.
9:39: Damn, there are a lot of ads on this. Maybe Fringe and Kings are spoiling me.
9:33: I’m still here, it’s just hard to say anything about the rush to form a plexiglass cockpit.
9:29: Coatings. Boo-urns.
9:21: Okay, seriously? 2500 dollars a gallon and that’s easier than a little aluminum pipe?
9:18: I realize there’s a whole history of modeling radar reflection but seriously is it tougher to paint it accurately than it is to fabricate a bit of aluminum piping? Oh, they’re doing it in three months.
9:17: Plus are we supposed to believe the head of the Luftwaffe had never heard of the preeminent glider designers in all Germany? And I was under the impression the 229 was designed to be a fighter-bomber, and that the Hortens didn’t claim it could be an interceptor?
9:16: “The Horten 229 was generations ahead of the rest of the world.” Therefore, it was obviously made for revenge.
9:06:
jeff nagle
stop touching it you dicks
allegra black
eh, at least it’s nat geo and not discovery people
discovery people are assholes
9:05: And it’s right there next to the Mosquito, huh. But where are the Garber peeps? And why do they keep touching it?
9:04: Hahahahahahaha, a “secure government facility.” Thanks for the vote of confidence, guys, but you forgot to mention it’s stored next to a mash tank and the expanded human nervous system. And then the shot of the cyclone wire, geez.
9:03: Norman Leach’s a Canadian military historian? We’re trusting a Canadian specialist to tell us about German aerospace-science relations?