Re: OT: "Warplane" Documentary Starts This Week on PBS



OM wrote:

...The interesting thing is that, according to some stories I've heard
from my Pop and some of his Air Farce buddies years ago, they were
reportedly experimenting with the wedgies back in WWII with a couple
of B-29's in hopes of at least reducing the cross-section enough to at
least play some havok with the German radar returns. The story is that
it happened really late in the war, and by the time they got anywhere
towards getting any positive results both sides of the war were over.



The Germans were playing around with RAM late in the war; they put a "waffle" patterned rubber coating on their U-boat snorkels, and were planing to make the Go-229 jet powered flying wing fighter out of plywood whose layers were held together with a charcoal impregnated glue for reduced radar signature.

Pat
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