It's amazing what you find on the web...
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:11 pmLike a lot of trips through the WorldWideWeb, I don't even remember what I started out looking for, but I ended up on a site called Luft'46, a conjectural site about what German aviation might have looked like had the European war gone on for a few more years. Which got me looking around a bit more, and, sho'nuf, some of those planes have made their way into MSFS. Sure glad they never got a chance to actually build these bad boys. Here, an Arado E.555 Amerikabomber escorted by a Heinkel P.1079.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Northrop actually built a copy of the Heinkel (or perhaps it was a Horton, which was very similar) using then-current (1945) construction methods and materials.
They tested, among other things, its aerodynamics as well as its radar signature.
Turns out that with the type of radar in use in 1945, the Allies would have had about 2-3 minutes warning before these things were overhead.
Scary.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Northrop actually built a copy of the Heinkel (or perhaps it was a Horton, which was very similar) using then-current (1945) construction methods and materials.
They tested, among other things, its aerodynamics as well as its radar signature.
Turns out that with the type of radar in use in 1945, the Allies would have had about 2-3 minutes warning before these things were overhead.
Scary.
