Do you know about his bird?

http://www.geobat.com/

I love flying wings.. so cool.
I really enjoyed the AirCraft in the first Indiana Jones movie... what the heck was that?

A frankenstein. No seriously, it was a fanciful aircraft made for the move that seem to borrow elements from the two major proponents of flying wings during the WWII. Jack Northrop and the Horton Bros. At the time of the first movie though, 1938 I believe, I'm not certain where either one was in their research though. Anyways it looked cool in the movie and it gave a nice big platform for Indy and the muscle-bound nazi to slug it out on.

Cool, thank you much.
... I had tried to include one for my character in a short lived TMNT game, but had a heck of a time finding anything beyond the movie. This explains why.

The Hortens ( with e ) had a glider ( Horten I ) ready in 1933 and were soon working on a piston engine motorized version ( Horten III ) which flew about 1937/38. The Jet version ( Horten IX/Go229 ) started in the desk in 1944, too late for the war.

This is cool stuff.

looks like the B2, but more small, I never see it.

Well the program got the axe in the early 90's if I remember correct. When the USSR went bye-bye and the program was running way over budget, so the then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney killed the program.

lol, looks like a German HO 'Gotha bomber' wannabe XDXDXD Nice ^^

There is so much stuff the Germans played around with during WWII that only now do we have the materials and hardware/ software to make work. It is really amazing and I guess it help explain some of the Super-Nazi scientist stuff that got planted in peoples minds after the war.

Yes, the german "UFO" looks too diferent, very futuristic, but well, thasnk for the information.

very cool

Makes me think about the WWII Komet as shape

ohhh cool, it looks like a scaled down version of the B-2

There's an old saying in the aircraft design buisness; "If if looks right it IS right."

Somehow, the A-12 doesn't really look right to me. I'm not really sure why, but Grumman probably thought the same thing when they decided not to build any flying versions.

But they DID take an extra $5 BILLION for the A-12 project after that decision...

Major points for being the first person ever to refer to a military aicraft as a Dorito! also is military equipment a hoby of yours or do you just reserch each item in depth before drawing it. Because you are the almighity compendium of mechanical knoledge,

Nope. 'Dorito' was the unofficial code name for the design project for the A12, so much so that supposedly security cracked down on engineers joking about 'the Dorito' in unsecure areas. I have also heard from someone who worked on the project (and who Baron also knows) that when they were setting up wind-tunnel tests for the models they would grab a few bags of Doritos and try to find the 'perfect' one to be the mascot for the flight, which was then eaten if the test results were unpromising.

Dude that is one of the best uses of time and energy ever and im not being scarcastic

Here's something you might find interesting. http://www.anigrand.com/AA2009_A-12.htm

It is like the current flying wings that need computers just to keep up with all of the controls so it dosent want to flip over?

Actually most flying wing designs that have been tested have been fairly stable aircraft. I think you are thinking of the F-117 'Wobbly Goblin' which supposedly is unflyable without computer assistance.

I always loved the A-12 as a design - it seemed like such a cool idea! Nice to see it get some recognition in your picture.

The A-12 was such a disaster for the Navy. I was an A-6 Intruder mechanic, best damn bomber we ever had!