Comments by "FiveCentsPlease" (@FiveCentsPlease) on "The Nazi Bomber Made To Destroy New York - The Horten H.XVIII 18 Flying Wing America Bomber" video.

+@yourmanufacturingguri001 The Horten 18 was never constructed and it was just an idea on paper. Only the 229 V prototypes were completed with very little flight testing. The Smithsonian has the never-flown V3 prototype.
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@jvargas454 Reimar Horten immigrated to Argentina (after being denied asylum elsewhere) while his brother Walter remained in Germany and served in the German Air Force. Reimar continued aircraft research and design, but not exactly a continuation of the 229 program. The YB-35 and YB-49 suffered yaw instability problems, complicating their success as a precision bombing platform, as well as poor range and fuel economy. Northrop was testing yaw dampers to solve the instability. Meanwhile, the new Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington had began to pressure Northrop to merge with Convair Aircraft, and Jack Northrop refused to do that. Perhaps it was retribution, but Symington killed the YB-49 program and had all examples scrapped along with the original drawings. The last examples were scrapped in view of Northrop employees. Symington retired to a nice job at Convair and the Air Force was stuck with the B-36.
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+@Radnick0024 The Raiders of the Lost Ark aircraft was a movie prop created by a designer, who was inspired by various unusual American and German prototypes.
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@peterson7082 It was the Japanese who began researching radar-absorbing and radar-disrupting aircraft coatings starting in 1943. This was to confuse long-range radar for IJN aircraft. They were basically mixing powdered compounds into paint and testing it with radar. The Japanese researchers were interrogated but had destroyed a lot of their notes. I would argue that for the historical record, perhaps the Japanese should be credited with early stealth concepts.
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+@DataWaveTaGo That photo of the 229 V3 is in Chicago in a Douglas aircraft hangar at Orchard Field (now O'Hare Airport.) Notice the other aircraft in the background. General Hap Arnold recommended preserving examples of foreign aircraft and since the AAF/Air Force was done with testing, notable aircraft were stored at Orchard Field while the remaining aircraft were scrapped or donated to some technical schools. It was around 1950 when those aircraft were donated to the Smithsonian so that the hangar could be used. There is one detail that is especially noteworthy about that picture. The 229 V3 has no control surfaces at all. It wasn't finished when it was captured. Any time someone wants to make an argument that the Allies tested the 229 just remember that it has no flight controls.
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