Fix flying wing stability issues?

[T. A. Gardner]

Ho-229 could have been valuable as a 1945/46 high speed low altitude strike/recon aircraft. It should be able to manage 600mph @ medium altitude and maybe 550mph @ 1km. I bet it would require an experten to fly and still be risky at that.

Perhaps the plywood/carbon graphite skin could be applied to all Nazi recon strike bombers to make them harder to counter as night fighters/bombers or reconnaissance strike bombers.

Except the claims of this are very suspicious and dubious at best.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-o ... -ho-229-v3

The Smithsonian restoration crew has made extensive tests of the resins used in the plywood on the V3 and found no indication of carbon (charcoal) being used in it in such a way that it could have absorbed radar signals.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collections/ ... tealth.cfm

[Paul Lakowski]

Ho-229 could have been valuable as a 1945/46 high speed low altitude strike/recon aircraft. It should be able to manage 600mph @ medium altitude and maybe 550mph @ 1km. I bet it would require an experten to fly and still be risky at that.

Perhaps the plywood/carbon graphite skin could be applied to all Nazi recon strike bombers to make them harder to counter as night fighters/bombers or reconnaissance strike bombers.

Except the claims of this are very suspicious and dubious at best.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-o ... -ho-229-v3

The Smithsonian restoration crew has made extensive tests of the resins used in the plywood on the V3 and found no indication of carbon (charcoal) being used in it in such a way that it could have absorbed radar signals.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collections/ ... tealth.cfm

Good piece but very typical for research paper...we are left with more questions than answers.

If a simple hand held radar device was all that was needed why not start there.
More doubtful is this a accurate CHAIN HOME simulator?
Surely after > 70 years such a sample is 'contaminated or disintegrated, how can we be sure?
If the mosquito had plywood skin , would that be the first stop- to compare that to another similar sized plan under CHAIN HOME radar? Then compare Ho-229 skin to same aircraft?

The questions go on and on....