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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Which is the essence of my point as to what was there to copy? Granted US had possession of the Go229 prototype

Who said anything about copying? I think the words I used were "inspiration" and "certain design characterestics"

But..

Knowing how hard it is to reverse engineer something favors the idea that Northrop would just choose to pass on it and simply use their own designs and associated flight test data from testing their flying wing designs.

I yet have to find similiarities aside the fact that both are flying wings...well, in the case of the B49, a semi flying wing (horizontal stabilizers)

So based on that one could say that 'size does not mater' with regards to instability of a flying wing

Good, then you see no problem with this pic:


I am sure you have enough imagination for the leading edges adjusted to your liking.

I keep seeing people make references to this.. But to be honest I have never seen the original source.

That and I have seen it stated in different way..

Everything from it 'PWND' the Me262 in a simulated dog fight to it 'outperformed' the Me262 in a simulated dog fight to your most recent it 'won' the simulated dog fight..

Knowing how those definitions can vary from person to person it would be interesting to see the original source and transcript of it.

That and as far as I can tell it was the smaller H.IX V2 not the Go229 V3 that was used in the simulated dog fight, and as far as I can tell the H.IX V2 did not have any guns.

Nice from you to point out that the V3 was an even more improved design over the already quite successful H.IX V2 prototype. Unluckily the war ended before the V3 was assembled, so we will never know how those improvements would have benefitted the aircraft.
The V3 never had any guns installed before the war ended.

Well they were all operational..

In that they all flew..

yeeaaah...That would make a stone operational once I throw it.

The YB35s had issues with the props and drives shafts and the YB49 had issues with the reliability of the jet engines.. Something the Go229 even suffered from..

And as noted above the YB49s were put into production.. And that was after the accident at Edwards.. A lot of people mistakenly think the crash at Edwards was the end of the Northrop flying wings, which is not the case! It was just one of many straws.. And not all straws were flying wing issues as much as political issues and miltary cuts backs

I am more then interested to know more about that. I consider the B49 programm quite fascinating, despite it's ultimate failure, for whatever reasons.

Ok, but my point is you can stretch an image to make the leading edges line up like you did in your shape pictures.. Thus one really needs to make those kind of measurements from a drawing with scales associated with it (blue prints)

See above. I put the pictures over each other so that the most extended areas match. If you want I can provide you with updated graphics to your liking, though I am not sure that would help in support of your points.

You missed my whole statement on the state of history these days.. Where so much of it stems from silly sources like the History Channel..

Where the History Channel has so many kids today believing the Germans were some sort of super humans and/or assisted by aliens from outer space..

My point to that being how important it is to dispel such beliefs!

Can't judge about that, last time I was in the US is a couple years ago now. (Patriot act? Ppl being treated like potential criminals at airports? Mit fingerprints taken? Did that once,
never again. Pity, I used to love the country and the people.)

I also doubt you will reach these kids here in this forum.

In that the notion of one country or one people being 'better' than another is what got Germany in all the trouble in the first place!

I am not exactly sure the US is a country that can afford fingerpointing when it comes to "we are better then others!"

So not bashing Germany or Germans, in that I would be bashing my family in doing so..

Me being of 100% German decent having grand parents that both came form Germany with roots dating back to the 1600s..

If anything having that background motivates me to make sure these silly types of history channel types of history get put in their place (the bin) ASAP.

Certainly explains the stubborness and the "I am always right!" attitude

Because IMHO the only way you can 'hope' to not make the same mistakes twice is to educate the children of today of the sins of the past

Once would have agreed to you, until I found out about what kind of lessons countries learned. For the longest time I thought WW2 taught the allies that War is a bad thing.
Now I know these countries learned that war is the best thing ever and you need one every couple years to bolster Egos.

In the flesh!

On that note, even I was surprised at how consistent my argument was between that one at ubi so many years ago and this current one..

I am good like that!

In regards to your style, undoubtly.