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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Disagree.. The B49, as with all flying wings had stability issues.. It was not until the advent of fly-by-wire computer control pilot inputs was this problem solved, which is what made the B2 possible.. Something the Germans would have surly realized for themselves had they had more time to fully test the Go229. Or had the US bothered to fully test the Go229 post war

The Go229 was stable enough to be cleared for serial production. It may or may not have proven airworthy in the long run, I agree that desperation had a hand here. But ultimately is purely up for speculation if that aircraft would have had proven itself or not. There is not much going for the Go229 Document wise, but engine failure at landing approach issues aside, there is nothing going against it, either.

It won a mock battle against a Me262, though.

Well that depends on your definition of failure.. Granted EDWARDS air force base got it's name due to the stability issues mentioned above

But as for the basic concept of the reduced drag a flying wing provides was not a failure, add to that the basic shape of a flying wing is more stealth than say a B52 and it was not a failure. Also there were a lot of politics involved at the time that killed off the flying wings of the 50s.

I define failure by the ability to create an operational aircraft. There have been a lot of flying wing prototypes in history.

You do realize that one can stretch and pull drawings to make them look like they agree when in fact they don't.. In your case here the leading edges.. In doing so you missed the point, that the wing span of by the B49 and B2 are the same.

I never disagreed about the wingspan. The pics are stretched to give an impression about shape.

See above

I would expect nothing less from someone who considers the Germans supermen assisted by aliens..

But here in the real world

The Me262 experts (STORMBIRDS) that build reproductions of the Me262 don't say what the people who belive the Germans were supermen assisted by aliens say they are saying

Supermen assisted by aliens? You need to become that bitter? Says someone from the nation that invented the A-Bomb and the internet? Seriously?
A bit more self confidence would be in order, here.