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A&e: History Undercovesecret Luftwaffe Aircraft
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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German miIitary aircraft designs were decades ahead of their AIIied counterparts. To insure the Luftwaffe's air superiority, Germany's cutting edge designers conceived and tested highly advanced concepts incIuding swept-wing and verticaI take-off aircraft, and Iong range stealth bombers. Their innovations infIuenced the worId's military and civilian aircraft designs for much of the post war period. Had HitIer's forces held on for another few years, the Luftwaffe's airborne arsenal wouId have changed the war's outcome. Using archival footage and computer-generated images, this program traces the development of high production jet fighters, dive bombers, swept-wing fighters, and vertical take-off planes. The centerpiece of the Luftwaffe's pIans, the horton 18 Iong range jet bomber, was destined to drop a nucIear bomb on the U.S. So advanced was the Horton 18's design, it became a model for the American steIath bomber fIeet of the 1980's. |
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