Nazi Germany's Secret UFO in WW2

During the Battle of Britain, despite managing to destroy an impressive 7 British aircraft, Nazi ace and engineer Walter Horten was still unhappy, for he had noticed that the less-talented pilots under his command were being butchered by the dreaded British Spitfire.

It was at this moment that Horton decided to finally create the futuristic fighter he had been dreaming about since the early 1930s, one that he envisioned would be superior to the Spitfire in every metric and which he was convinced had the potential to win the war.

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Credit:
Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Jake Leigh-Howarth
Narrator: Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard

[j.peters]

This plane made an appearance in the tail end of the campaign in Medal of Honor: Frontline.

Also the only surviving Ho 229 air frame that was sent to the US was restored by the Smithsonian a number of years ago and is now on display there.

[princeofpokemon]

With the Technology and Engineering capacities of today, I'm pretty sure Germany could pull this off

[andrewmontgomery]

My personal favourite Luft 46 plane. I heard that the Smithsonian have restored the only suriving prototype.

[starlighter]

I first heard about the Horten HO 229 from the 2002 video game Medal of Honour frontline. I thought it was made up and didn’t realise it was a real project so I had a look into it and discovered it was a real project.

[HeisenbergFam]

History is so wild I wouldnt be surprised if Austrian Painter survived and got away with aliens as his assistants

[jonniez]

Jack Northrop built a flew his N-9M flying wing in 1942 which was used as proof of concept for the B-35, B-49 and eventually the B-2.

[chrissolis]

Imagine being in a spitfire and you just see a jet powered plane without ever seeing something like that ever bedore

[RIGman]

Watching this gave me flashbacks to the intro of Wolfenstein: The New Order.

[edwardmelvin]

Unfortunately, you failed to mention the work of Jack Northrop with flying wings. His research started in the US in the late 1930's, many years before the Go 229 was captured. The Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing design was started in November 1941. The Horten may have had SOME influence. But, it wasn't an unexplored concept.

[Caldera]

I can hear LazerPig's seathing screams of agony from here after they cited the Ho 229 as the inspiration for the B2.
Oh boy....

[corymorimacori]

“I was saving the planet from an Axis of Darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!” Winston Churchill

[stangace]

The design of the HO229 was not incorporated into the B2. Jack Northrop was working on his own flying wing bomber design during the 40s! google YB 35!

[cadjebushey]

MOH Frontlines latter half focuses alot on this plane. Mentions the Horton brothers, flying wing tech and jet propulsion. Such a great game. 😊

[floydmcgriddle]

The reason I clicked so fast is because I find it ironic, I'm playing Wolfenstein the new order in the opening where you have to shoot down the hortens

[MalcolmIIofCaledonia]

For years I thought this was a fantasy plane made for the Wolfenstein series.

[fj]

Some historian say "The Wehrmacht wars an Army of the 40s wich used mainly weapons of the 30s while developing the weapons of the 50s"

[Icemann]

0:23 That blueprint kinda looks like Panzerpferd's head.

[ruskiwaffle]

The moment I heard that the Ho 229 was the inspiration for the B-2, I knew all hope is lost.

[WatcherMovie]

And another Ho 229 video that ignores Jack Northrop's dwelling into wing shape plane design years before the Horton Brothers did, ignores the XB-35 and XB-49, and just "states" that Ho 229 is why the US developed the B-2 Spirit, completely spitting on Jack Northrop when he was alive to see the B-2 in person before his death.

[JBRAI]

Just a small thing, at 2:29 the spitfires couldn’t fire that much in one go because they only had about i think 15 seconds worth of fire so they’d fire in 1-3 second bursts

Edit: YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THE B-2 WAS BASED OFF THE HO-229