Horten Ho 229

[Harry Basset]

In the papers today there are reports that the Ho 229 was designed with Stealth technology. The Daily Mail has unwittingly revealed just how cunning the Germans were by divulging that they dragged the prototypes behind gliders!

[Quixoticish]

Slow news day for the Daily Fail today then I take it?

[Garry Russell]

Link here for those who buy a Nespaper rather than the Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... itain.html


Garry

[Fodda]

Amazingly in the story, the images clearly show two engine nacelles. Yet in the text they say that it was powered by one jet engine. And yet again in the caption of a picture they say it was powered by six or eight engines!!

Don't you just love great copy-editing?

LOL... And the Daily Naz... Sorry, Daily Mail... Any excuse for putting in a picture of their great hero Hitler. But then what do you expect from a "newspaper" that was established originally to promote Fascism to Britain's women in the 1930s. :roll:

[cstorey]

But then what do you expect from a "newspaper" that was established originally to promote Fascism to Britain's women in the 1930s. :roll:

I'm afraid this statement is quite wrong. My uncle was a journalist on the Daily Mail immediately after WW 1 ( i.e. about 1919 ) and IIRC it was established in the 1890s .

[Angus Prune]

That's right, the Mail was established in 1896 and in fact, funded a number of early aviation prizes including £1000 for the first Channel crossing. Shame it went to a Frenchman

[hobby]

I don't think that 'Teddy Tail of the Daily Mail' was ever involved in politics.

[Garry Russell]

Ah well

At least the country is free enough for the Mail to say what it likes and for us to choose not to read it.

Interesting read though about an unusual subject

Garry

[AllanL]

I recently downloaded an article written just after the war about the develoment of the Merlin and Griffon engines. The author started off by bemoaning the number of articles coming out of the ruins of Germany about the brilliant technology that the Germans had been developing and how it all would have swung the war in their favour.

The truth of the matter about the likes of the Horton and the ME262 was that we had wrecked the industrial base that would have been needed to produce these miracle weapons, and also restricted German access to the relatively exotic materials needed for the jet engines.

The end result was that even though they got the ME262 into production, engine life was frequently only double the hours taken to change them.

Also the war with the Russians, and if you look at the brutal casualty numbers on both sides you will realise that we were a relative sideshow, meant that there were precious few trained pilots to fly the wonder planes. I guess that's what you get when two psychopaths who didn't bat an eyelid at murdering their own countrymen go to war with each other.

Just to show old habits die hard, it is interesting that Max Mosley used the Daily Mail for his latest dig at the F1 teams. They supported his father's Black Shirts, and of course the British Union of Fascists received funds from the Nazis.

[DelP]

Interesting....

Talking about propaganda, apparently the Russian government website recently revised history....the Soviets went to war because of the Polish friendship with the Nazis

My Polish work colleague is seriously pi**ed off, as are his parents and grandparents....

...and I'm still waiting for the Daily Mail's article and pictures of the Titanic sailing into New York harbour....

Derek :@