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Old 03-31-2013, 10:48 AM  
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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer View Post
The design was ahead of it's time. But it took advanced flight control computers to actually make it work with any real expectation of surviving more than a couple of flights be the inevitable crash would happen.
saw that plane on TV today, they said it actually handled pretty well and almost broke the sound barrier

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229
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