THE LONE SOLDIER

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Hitlers Stealth Bomber Part 5

Vengeful: Inventors Reimar and Walter Horten were inspired to build the Ho 2-29 by the deaths of thousands of Luftwaffe pilots in the Battle of Britain    The 142-foot wingspan bomber was submitted for approval in 1944, and it would have been able to fly from   Berlin to NYC and back without refueling, thanks to the same blended wing design and six BMW 003A or eight Junker Jumo 004B turbojets. He thought the electromagnetic waves of radar would be absorbed, and in conjunction with the aircraft's sculpted surfaces the craft would be rendered almost invisible to radar detectors.This was the same method eventually used by the   U.S. in its first stealth aircraft in the early 1980s, the F-117A Nighthawk.The plane was covered in radar absorbent paint with a high graphite content, which has a similar chemical make-up to charcoal.After the war the Americans captured the prototype Ho 2-29s along with the blueprints and used some of their technological advances to aid their own designs.But experts always doubted claims that the Horten could actually function as a stealth aircraft.Now using the blueprints and the only remaining prototype craft, Northrop-Grumman (the defence firm behind the B-2) built a fullsize replica of a Horten Ho 2-29.

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Rifleman Sheldon Lee Jordan Steel killed in Afghanistan

It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Rifleman Sheldon Steel, from 5th Battalion The Rifles (5 RIFLES), who was killed in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, on 27 November 2011.read more Here R.I.P

Hitlers stealth bomber part 4

The jet intakes were years ahead of their time.Two pilot brothers in their thirties, Reimar and Walter Horten, suggested a flying wing design they had been working on for years.They were convinced that with its drag and lack of wind resistance such a plane would meet Goering's requirements.Construction on a prototype was begun in Goettingen in   Germany in 1944.The centre pod was made from a welded steel tube, and was designed to be powered by a BMW 003 engine.The most important innovation was Reimar Horten's idea to coat it in a mix of charcoal dust and wood glue.

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Scaled ambition Sea Harrier

Ewald Schuster saw his first Hawker Siddeley Harrier at age nine and was so captivated by the machine that he devoted 22 of the next 34 years of his life to creating a fully functioning radio control scale model of the vertical take-off aircraft.
This coming spring, on a dry lake bed in the high California desert, the research laboratory technician at the University of Southern California (USC) will get to find out if the all-composite third-generation Harrier he built with the help a few dozen engineering students will fly, or more importantly, whether it will transition.
While jet-powered radio-controlled (RC) models are becoming the rage in the hobbyist world, no-one as of yet has developed a properly functioning scale Harrier, meaning one that can perform the transition between hover and forward flight and vice versa using four articulated mid-body nozzles and attitude control puffers on the wings, nose and tail. Read More HERE  

I can really understand what motivated Edward in his project. The Harrier is a truly special aircraft and personally speaking as a young man going to War in the Falkland Islands knowing we had Harries with us gave me a lot of confidence we would win the War. Iam happy that the Harrier will fly on with the USMC. Semper Fi.

Hitlers stealth bomber part 3

The plane could have helped Adolph Hitler win the war First built and tested in the air in March 1944, it was designed with a greater range and speed than any plane previously built and was the first aircraft to use the stealth technology now deployed by the   U.S. in its B-2 bombers. Thankfully Hitler's engineers only made three prototypes, tested by being dragged behind a glider, and were not able to build them on an industrial scale before the Allied forces invaded. From Panzer tanks through to the V-2 rocket, it has long been recognised that   Germany 's technological expertise during the war was years ahead of the Allies. But by 1943, Nazi high command feared that the war was beginning to turn against them, and were desperate to develop new weapons to help turn the tide.Nazi bombers were suffering badly when faced with the speed and manoeuvrability of the Spitfire and other Allied fighters. Hitler was also desperate to develop a bomber with the range and capacity to reach the   United States .In 1943 Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering demanded that designers come up with a bomber that would meet his requirements, one that could carry 1,000kg over 1,000km flying at 1,000km/h.

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THE UK AND ITS JOHNNY ENGLISH APROACH TO CYBER CRIME

It seems that as a Country we are at great threat from Cyber attacks which is costing the UK  £27bn a year. Not a small figure and could be better used I suppose by giving it to India so they can build another Space Ship, or I could be thought insane by suggesting we spend it on our own people? Well anyway, we noW have a new Coalition Government so they will be on the ball and get it sorted wont they? Not like the last lot of Johnny English Socialists surely. Hmmmn well apparently Dave has ordered his crack team of …… erm what can I call them? Incompetent should suffice, to “Jolly well sort this mess out before Christmas , Oh sorry The Holidays .” There is just one small problem before they take on the might of the Chinese and Russians, they seem to have LOST all of their computers. They wouldn’t even put a storyline like this in a comedy James Bond movie. I think Dave would be better served using carrier pigeons, but I’m sure he would lose those as well. Do they eat Pigeon in China? The Tories should be sponsored by comet and sold to the Chinese for a £1.00

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Spirit of Wootton Bassett lives on

Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay their respects as the bodies of four soldiers killed in three separate blasts in Afghanistan were brought back to the UK.
Lieutenant David Boyce, 25, Lance Corporals Richard Scanlon, 31, and Peter Eustace, 25, and Private Thomas Lake, 29, were all killed by explosions in Helmand Province earlier this month.
L/Cpl Eustace, of the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, died on November 16, Lt Boyce and L/Cpl Scanlon, both of the 1st The Queen's Dragoons Guards, died the following day of injuries and Pte Lake, of the 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment (1 PWRR) died on November 20 Read more HERE R.I.P.

Governments may change the routes for the repatriation but they cannot change the respect that has now become ingrained in the British publics mindset.

Hitlers stealth bomber part 1

Keep in mind, this aircraft was built in the 1940's.  It resembles our Stealth bombers of today.  Had Hitler got these into production sooner, the world wouldn't be what it is today. With its smooth and elegant lines, this could be a prototype for some future successor to the stealth bomber. But this flying wing was actually designed by the Nazis 30 years before the Americans successfully developed radar-invisible technology. Now an engineering team has reconstructed the Horten Ho 2-29 from blueprints, with startling results.

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WHATEVER THE COST MAY BE

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THE RESCUE

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