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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8aren't the materials on digg sensationalized too?
i sensationalzed my contributions to digg.
that is the only way to get people to read ***** on the internet. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Surely you're kidding right?
- cybershoplifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The plan was simple" ....simple my ass, no American or German pilot would be that ***** stupid....al-Qaeda might like this idea but beyond that.
- enigmattic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ Buga
What the ***** are you talking about?
This aircraft was made by Northrop, it's American, learn how to read.
The flying wing concept was researched by Northrop and Junkers around the same time and the first true flyable flying wing was made by Horton in Germany in Late WWII, long after it could make a difference. - jesusphreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The main thing I don't like about DamnInteresting is them repackaging Wikipedia articles and then profiting off of them via a store.
- jesusfresh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2where the hell did *titanium* "leading edges on the wings" come from in the summary? i see no mention in the article, just "heavily reinforced leading edges on the wings." plus i dont think titanium started coming into use as an actual metal until after WWII...
- walkingmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2old news, but always cool
- Odwalla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's a picture of the Northrop design. Northrop, the company that makes the B2, has been working on flying wing designs since the mid 1940's. The B2 is a flying wing not only because it helps with radar return reduction but also because Northrop felt that materials and technologies had progressed to the point where they could make their half-century old dream a true reality.
I realize that current American public education standards mean that history classes always start at the Magna Carta and end somewhere around Pickett's Charge, but really, that's no excuse. Try to augment your knowledge a little bit on your own. - will42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1British fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain would do something akin to this, but not with specially engineered planes. When fighters ran out of ammo and the V2s were still advancing, the V2 rockets were slow enough for the pilots to be able to manoeuvre their wing underneath that of the V2, then roll, flipping the V2 over and causing it to crash. There's a blurry photo out of there of one such occassion.
- grendelwraith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Right cause it is only tech if it happened in your lifetime.
Technology never existed before now.
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Dark Helmet: Where? - jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2you might be right, but does that even apply to this article? i browsed through the wiki and it didn't appear to disagree
- satori3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why is it that all the pics on every site I found on the subject look photoshopped. More to the point there is one pic with landing gear that didn't evern exist at the time. If it's real someone's done a hell of a job making it look fake.
- ShaDoWwork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sweet cool new ways to kill peopel just what we need.(read huge amounts on sarcasim)
- ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Come on people just bookmark this site. Every single post on this site makes it to the front page of digg.
- will42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My mistake. :)
- drewpost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think you mean the V1 "Buzzbombs" There is no way in hell that a WWII fighter could catch a V2. The V2s were more rockets in the sense that they were vertically launched and once they reached a pre-set altitude then their power would cut and the rocket would crash into its target. The V1 used a rocket-like scram jet engine to power a plane like craft with a warhead. It flew in relatively level flight and these are the slow crafts that you are referring to.
- cybershoplifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Odwalla, I think more a safety feature for nutty Russian pilots filled with hate for the attacking Germans.
- cybershoplifter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think any aircraft design team decided ramming a plane into another plane was a critical design feature except in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" or when they were blasted. I think ramming is done things called rockets & missiles. Jeeeeeez!
- drewpost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think you mean V1 "Buzzbombs" There is not a chance in a hell that a WWII plane could catch a V2
- starr61, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its got to be bogus, Shirley. And dont call me Shirley ....
- Odwalla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You're absolutely right, JF. The first US commercial use of titanium was for the A12/SR71. Lockheed had to develop all new tools and ways of working with titanium. Even things as simple as "don't leave your steel wrench on the wing because the steel will chemically react with the titanium" were hard lessons learned during the development of those planes. And then, when the production runs were finished, the CIA made Lockheed destroy all of the tools, jigs, and documentation they had created for working with titanium. It was almost three decades before widespread use of titanium in consumer goods happened. It might have happened a lot earlier if that knowledge hadn't been destroyed.
The titanium for most of the A12s & SR71s came, ironically, from the Soviet Union. The CIA set up scores of shell corporations to buy it. Russia has the largest titanium veins in the world. At the time they had no idea how to work with it so they were more than happy to sell it to the various "businesses" that came calling.
So, no, the Northrup and/or german ramming concepts at the end of WWII most definately did not have machined titanium parts on them. No one knew how to work with titanium at that point in time. It's yet another error in both the linked article and the summary. - mccoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> The V1 used a rocket-like scram jet engine to power a plane like craft with a warhead.
As long as we are being pedantic, the V1 used a pulse-jet. Let air in the front of a pipe, close a shutter, inject fuel and ignite it, let the expanding gas go out the back in a pulse of thrust, then repeat. This combustion cycle is what led to the buzzing noise from which their nickname was derived.
A scram-jet is a supersonic combustion ramjet; a ramjet where the actual combustion is taking place at supersonic speeds, unlike a traditional ramjet that slows the air down to subsonic speeds in the combustion chamber. Scramjets are something that NASA and an Aussie research team have only managed to pull off in the past couple of years and were well beyond the wildest dreams of WWII aeronautical engineers... - slowspin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Is that a vague reference to "The Last Starfighter"?
- lonelycanuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This was pretty cool.
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http://digg.com/science/Harlequin_Disease_-_The_Scariest_Out_There_(pics_description) - Odwalla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0The author shows his ignorance of WW2 history in the very first sentence of that article. There never was, isn't, and probably never will be a class of aircraft calld a "flying fortress". *The* Flying Fortress was the Boeing B17. It was America's mainstay heavy bomber in the European theater of operations.
The entire concept of ramming wasn't anything earth shattering back then and it still isn't now. The Russians were building Yak fighters with reinforced leading edges of the propellers well before WWII began. They knew that if war broke out they would be facing an ammunition shortage and designed the propeller in such a way as to allow the pilot to get in behind an enemy aircraft and chew its empenage (that's read "tail section" to the uneducated in the crowd) off without damaging his own airplane. - vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Hey Digg, the History channel called and they want their boring useless ancient history article back.
Wake me when a tech article actually makes it to the front page. - Buga, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Is it weird that this looks like the B2 bomber? WW2 German Technology was always ahead of its time...
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Every article I read from that site is sensationalized and not only stretches the truth, but breaks it. Funny thing is, it always links back to wikipedia articles on the subject, which always discredit the site.
http://www.damninteresting.com is a tabloid site and should be banned from digg.
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