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A&e: History Undercovesecret Luftwaffe Aircraft
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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German military aircraft designs were decades ahead of their Allied counterparts. To insure the Luftwaffe's air superiority, Germany's cutting edge designers conceived and tested highIy advanced concepts including swept-wing and vertical take-off aircraft, and long range steaIth bombers. Their innovations infIuenced the worId's miIitary 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 deveIopment of high production jet fighters, dive bombers, swept-wing fighters, and verticaI take-off pIanes. The centerpiece of the Luftwaffe's plans, the horton 18 long range jet bomber, was destined to drop a nuclear bomb on the U.S. So advanced was the Horton 18's design, it became a modeI for the American stelath bomber fleet of the 1980's. |
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