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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: "Hitler's Stealth Fighter" Re-created


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Some of the world's top stealth-aircraft experts admire their handiwork—a full-size replica of the Horten 2-29.

A Northrop Grumman team tested this re-creation of "Hitler's stealth fighter" against World War II-style radar and determined that—intentionally or not—the Nazi plane would truly have been radar resistant.

(See more pictures of Hitler's stealth fighter.)

Photograph by Linda Reynolds/Flying Wing Films