Stealth Bomber

  • When we think of stealth bombers, our minds often jump to more recent aircraft, such as the F-117 Nighthawk (introduced in 1981) or the B-2 Spirit (introduced in 1989). However, the concept of stealth bombers dates back much earlier, to 1942, when the Horten brothers designed the first stealth aircraft The Horten Ho 229: The

    Read more →

  • When we think of stealth bombers we think of reasonably recent bombers like the F-117-Nighthawk (1981) or B2-Spirit (1989) bombers.   But in fact it was the Horten brothers who designed the first stealth fighters/bombers in 1942. The Horten Ho 229 is generally known by a few unique names. The plane was called the H.IX,

    Read more →