Other than the fact that they are both flying wing type aircraft, comparing the Horten interceptor to the Northrop bomber and claiming that the Horton was somehow better/more stable/etc... makes no sense.
In the fighter/interceptor role, the kind of long frequency yaw translation instability that plagued all flying wings before the advent of computer controls, would never be an issue. In fact I doubt it would have even been detectable through a reflector gun sight at the ranges and with the short time "on target" that a first generation jet interceptor would have on a piston engine bomber.
The simple fact is that the Germans never tried to level bomb with a Go229 from 30000ft, as that is not what it was made for.
Saying the German design is somehow better/more advanced/whatever than the Northop bombers is just the same kind of flag waving, fanboy wishful thinking that proponents of American/Allied aircraft have been constantly accused of over the ten plus years of this simulation.
Was the Go229 a "superplane"? A world beater? I guess we will never know, as it never met a P-80 in combat.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
Last edited by ElAurens; 05-23-2012 at 12:24 PM.
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