NAZI UFO'S

"The Nazi party had a secret flying disc already off of the drawing board and flying and it was capable of 1200 miles an hour. Vertical take-off, 90? changes, much like a helicopter, and of course was far superior to anything the Allies powers had at that time. Secondly they also had another craft about to be up and going it was capable of doing 2500 miles per hours, which was double the original. Not only did it have the characteristics of the original craft, but it also had a laser weapon aboard it which capable of penetrating four inches of armour. Needless to say that really spooked the allied forces into making a redemptive attempt against Von Braun and bringing him … into a state of capitulation." (1)

the RFZ UFO was always manned by the same person, LUTHER VEITZ, but it seemed to be not very safe, because during the tests it dropped a lot of times.

The US and Russion had both suggested that many of the UFO sightings after the second world war were actually quite possibily German Technogoly. Could Hitler have been behind the UFO phenomenon?

Nazi UFO Secret: Hitler's UFO Weapon

Welcome to Nazi UFO Secret .com - With this website we intend to look at and reveal all the known information about Hitlers UFO connections and the full story to the Nazi UFO secret and the possible connection to UFO sightings across the US and the rest of the world. Could these UFO sightings be nothing more then man made technology stolen from Nazi Germany at the end of the second world war?

Antartica Nazi UFO Bases

In 1950, Captain C. Moreno, commander of the Argentine ship Navy, wrote the following report:

"In 16 hours. 10 minutes. March 24 crew of our ship seen in the skies over the island into Antarctic Disepshn object that was neither aeroplanom nor the satellite, weather balloon and nor any of the famous aircraft."

In June and July 1950, followed by a series of observations UFOs in the sky by Chilean and Argentine Antarctic weather. The Brazilian newspaper O'Estado "in July 1950, reported looked like one of those UFOs:

"… The object was inswept form, its surface flow from red to green. Zigzag machine flying in a westerly direction, changing course several times and speed. The object remained stationary for about 20 minutes at an altitude of 5000 meters. Peredvigalsya it in full silence" .

In September 1950, Officer A. Orrego Chilean Navy photographed a very large object flying inswept form manoeuvre in the sky of the Chilean Antarctic.

"German submarines frequently appeared in the southern Atlantic. In 1942, Captain Gerlach archipelago Goug investigated as a possible base for radars and camps for prisoners. April 4, 1944 British submarine sunk the German submarine U-859. 47 crew members were killed, but 20 were saved. After 30 years one of the escaped told that the boat was a secret shipment of mercury. It is known that mercury is used for the production of certain fuels. Some light on the interest of Germans to Antarctica sheds statement commander of the German submarine fleet K. Denitsa, that "the German submarine fleet rebuilt in another part of the world in the impregnable fortress".

Just before the end of the WWII, two German provision U-boats, U-530 and U-977, were launched from a port on the Baltic Sea. Reportedly they took with them members of the antigravity-disk research and development teams [ULTRA], and the LAST of the most vital disc components [much of this technology and hardware had been transported to the base during the course of the war]. This included the notes and drawings for the latest saucer or aerial disk designs, and designs for the gigantic underground complexes and living accommodations based on the remarkable underground factories of Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains. The two U-boats duly reached the new land of Neu-Schwabenland where they unloaded everything. When they arrived in Argentina several months later, their crews were captured. It seems as if they were either counting on the formerly German-friendly Argentineans to allow them access, or it could have been that they intentionally allowed themselves to be discovered for misinformation purposes, i.e. -- "yes... we are the last two renegade German subs. We've been trying to hold out but...oops, you caught us... the war's finally over!"

More than one year after the surrendering of U977 the US NAVY launches the biggest military operation in the Antarctic ice under the command of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. This is the operation 'HIGHJUMP', including 13 ships, 1 aircraft carrier, 2 seaplane tenders, 6 two-engined R4D transports and 4000 men. The only official statement on the purpose of such a task force is the need for testing "new material under the extreme Antarctic conditions." The force starts up at the established US bases in the "ROSS SEA", then it moves up the western Antarctic coast heading toward the Northern Antarctic coast, 'NEUSCHWABENLAND' and building up a bridgehead on January 27th 1947 somewhere west of it. Officially the expedition is a big success because it delivers many new facts of the use of military equipment under extreme conditions. "-- What is the need of such a big task force in this area? IF the expedition was such a success, WHY did Byrd already return to the US in February 1947? The operation was planned and equipped for a full 6-8 month duration.

News:

According to leaked documents from archives, Nazi scientists were working on "The Rory Project" to develop 6 foot 6 android based blond haired males with pale white skin. It is not known if any prototypes were built as the lab was destroyed by air raid. Rumour has it though that one successful prototype was deployed.

July 2009 News

Hitler's Secret Weapon Unvieled

 Hitler's secret weapon that could have made Nazi bomber planes invisible to Allied forces has been unveiled for the first time.

The stealth fighter-bomber, named the Horten 229, closely resembles the US Air Force's current B2 bomber and was estimated to be about 20 years ahead of Germany's rivals in terms of stealth technology. But the Nazis didn't have time to put the "flying wing" into mass production before their surrender in 1945.American forces held onto the aircraft's prototypes and equipment — and the makers of the B2 Northrop Grumman Corp have now replicated the design for a documentary.

"This was the most advanced technology that the Germans had at the end of the war, and Northrop solved the question of how stealthy it was and its performance against Allied radar at the time," Fox News reported documentary maker Mike Jorgenson as saying.

"It's significantly better than anything flying operationally probably until the 1960s."

Researchers believe the Ho 229's stealth capabilities would have allowed it to appear invisible to British Royal Air Force radars if it were to fly a few dozen feet from ground level.

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C-47 Skytrain/Dakota

The DC-3 did not go unnoticed by one of Douglas's oldest customers -- the U.S. Army.

The military career of the Douglas DC series began in 1936 when the Army Air Corps ordered a pair of DC-2s under the designation C-32. A contract followed for 18 DC-2s in the C-33 freighter configuration and two more as C-34 staff transports. Then, in 1937, the Army ordered a plane built to its own specifications. It was a hybrid design that combined the fuselage of the DC-2 with a DC-3 tail. This was the sole C-38 prototype and it led to 35 production versions called the C-39. The C-39 represented the first serious effort by the Army to establish an airlift capability.
By 1941 the old Air Corps had been transformed into the Army Air Forces, and it selected a modified version of the DC-3 -- the C-47 Skytrain -- to become its standard transport aircraft. A reinforced fuselage floor and the addition of a large cargo door were the only major modifications. Other changes included the fitting of cargo hooks beneath the center wing section and the removal of the tail cone to mount a hook for towing gliders.
As a supply plane, the C-47 could carry up to 6,000 pounds of cargo. It could also hold a fully assembled jeep or a 37 mm cannon. As a troop transport, it carried 28 soldiers in full combat gear. As a medical airlift plane, it could accommodate 14 stretcher patients and three nurses. Seven basic versions were built, and the aircraft was given at least 22 designations, including the AC-47D gunship, the EC-47 electronic reconnaissance aircraft, the EC-47Q antiaircraft systems evaluation aircraft and the C-53 Skytrooper.
Every branch of the U.S military and all the major allied powers flew it. The U.S. Navy version was the R4D. The British and the Australians designated it the Dakota (a clever acronym composed of the letters DACoTA for Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft). The aircraft operated from every continent in the world and participated in every major battle. By the end of World War II, more than 10,000 had been built. For all of its official and unofficial names, it came to be known universally as the "Gooney Bird." General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, termed it one of the most vital pieces of military equipment used in winning the war.
C-47s remained in active military service long after the end of World War II. They played a critical role in the 1948 Berlin Airlift and saw action in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

Specifications

First flight:	Dec. 23, 1941
Model Number:	C-47/R4D
Wingspan:	95 feet 6 inches
Length:	63 feet 9 inches
Height:	17 feet
Service ceiling:	24,000 feet
Normal range:	1,600 miles
Maximum range:	3,800 miles
Weight:	31,000 pounds
Cruise speed:	160 mph
Power plant:	Two 1,200 horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-1830 radial engines
Accommodation:	Three crew and 6,000 pounds of cargo, or 28 airborne troops, or 14 stretcher patients and three attendants

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P-38 Lightning

 

 Rugged, fast and versatile, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a potent combat aircraft and a superb fighter bomber, also flying as a night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and torpedo-bomber. Powered by two liquid-cooled engines, the P-38 had a top speed of 414 miles per hour and carried a 20-mm cannon and four machine guns in its nose.

 

Designed in 1937 as a high-altitude "pursuit aircraft" (interceptor), the XP-38 was heavier than a Bristol Blenheim Mk. I, which at that time was the standard British medium bomber. Equipped with under wing droppable fuel tanks, the Lockheed P-38 was used extensively as a long-range escort fighter aircraft and saw action in practically every major combat area of the world. The Pacific theatre of operations produced the two highest scoring aces in American history - Major Richard Bong and Major Thomas McGuire, Jr. Both men flew P-38 Lightnings in the Southwest Pacific and each received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his courage and accomplishments.

 

 Known for its exceptional range and the dependability of its two Allison engines, this legendary aircraft made up for any shortcomings with its exceptional set of guns and cannons in its nose, giving it more concentrated firepower than other US fighters, which usually had their guns mounted in their wings. Many different versions, including pathfinder and reconnaissance aircraft configurations, were produced. 

After WW2, a number of Lockheed P-38s were used for aerial photography in the private sector. Almost 10,000 P-38s were built. Today, only a few are remaining.

Type:	Long range fighter and fighter bomber
Powerplant:	Two Allison V-1710-27/29
Max speed:	414 mph (666 km/hr)
Ceiling:	44,000 ft (13 400 m)
Range:	475 miles (765 km) on internal fuel
Weight (empty):	12,600 lbs (5806 kg)
Max. T/O:	21,600 lbs (9798 kg)
Wingspan:	52' 0" (15.85m)
Length:	37' 10" (11.53 m)
Height:	9' 10" (3 m)
Armament:	One 20mm cannon, four .50 machine guns, 2,000 lb of bombs, rockets

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Me 262

The Me 262 was literally years ahead of fighters of other nations. That’s what the Allied engineers concluded after the war, when Me 264 units captured in Germany were brought back in their home countries. Studying the airframe and engines of this one-of-a-kind aircraft, the American, Russian and British experts developed more advanced jet engines and airframes, so that pilots could finally break the sound barrier over the ensuing years.
Hitler wanted this military aircraft to be a bomber, so it first went to combat as such. With limited load capacity, the Messerschmitt 262 had little impact on the advancing Allied divisions. Had it been used properly from the start (i.e. as a fighter), it might well have swept Allied bombers from the skies. The Me 262 really gave the German pilots and edge over the Allied since there was no equal airplane for them to fly.
From March 1944 to April 1945 (fall of the Third Reich), 1,433 Me 262 were produced.

Type:	Fighter and bomber
Engine:	2 Junkers Jumo 004B jet engines
Max speed:	870 Km/h (540 mph)
Rate of climb:	1 200 m/min (3940 ft./min.)
Ceiling:	11 450 m (37,500 ft.)
Range:	1 050 Km (650 mi.) at 9 000 m (30,000 ft.)
Weight (empty):	3 800 Kg (8,738 lb.)
Weight (loaded):	6 400 Kg (14,110 lb.)
Wingspan:	12,5 m (40 ft. 11 in.)
Length:	10,6 m (34 ft. 9 in.)
Height:	3,83 m (12 ft. 7in.)
Armament:	Four 30-mm Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 108 cannon mounted in nose; twelve R4M air-to-air rockets; two 226-kg (500-lb.) bombs or one 452-kg (1,000-lb) bomb

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Bf 109

As much as the Spitfire, the Bf 109 is one of the emblematic airplanes of World War 2 military aviation. This aircraft was the most common fighter of the Luftwaffe during the conflict. Light, fast and tough, this airplane will be remembered as one of the greatest prop interceptor ever built.

The Bf 109 prototype took off in September, 1935. It was the first airplane used in combat during the Civil War in Spain in 1937, with German pilots enrolled in the Condor legion. This allowed the German to test the aircraft possibilities, and so they were well prepared in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War.
In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Bf 109s were used to escort German bombers. The German airplane was more agile than the British Hurricane but less than the Spitfire; this explains why in the end the British aviation prevailed.
Almost 35,000 units of the Bf 109 different versions were built, in Germany or other countries.

Type:	Fighter
Engine:	Daimler-Benz 604 A1 dev. 1 475 hp
Max speed:	553 Km/h (342 mph)
Ceiling:	10 500 m (34,450 ft.)
Range:	660 Km (410 mi.)
Weight (empty):	2 600 kg (5,900 lb.)
Weight (loaded):	3 400 Kg (7,500 lb.)
Wingspan:	9,86 m (32'4")
Length:	8,64 m (28'4")
Height:	2,50 m (8’3”)
Armament:	One engine mounted 20-mm cannon and four 7,7-mm machine guns.

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P-51 Mustang

The North American P-51 Mustang is a legendary plane, as much as the Spitfire or the Bf-109. No other combat aircraft of the war could go as far and fly as high as the Mustang. No wonder it was used to escort bombers over Germany and clear the skies of Luftwaffe airplanes.

Germany was far, too far for the Allied interceptors that had to go back too early, leaving the bombers to the Luftwaffe aircrafts. In 1944, the introduction
of the P-51 was a huge relief for the crews of Allied bombers. Very fast, with excellent handling and armament, the Mustang outclassed most German and Japanese airplanes, except the Focke-Wulf Fw-190D as a fighter interceptor (with its jet engines, the Messerschmidt 262 was a technical marvel ahead of its time, but still needed to be tested – many of them were shot down by P-51 Mustang pilots).

With the B-29 and the F4U Corsair, the P-51 is certainly one of the greatest United States' technical achievements of the Second World War and one of the best piston engine figther aircraft ever designed. It will be remembered as the airplane that allowed the Allied Forces to penetrate deep into Germany skies without being overwhelmed by enemy fighter aircrafts.

Type:	Fighter
Powerplant:	Rolls Royce (Packard) Merlin V-1650
Max speed:	437 mph (703 km/hr)
Ceiling:	41900 ft (12770 m)
Range:	1000 miles (1610 km)
Weight (empty):	7000 lbs (3175 kg)
Max. T/O:	12100 lbs (5487 kg)
Wingspan:	37' (11.30 m)
Length:	32' 3" (9.80 m)
Height:	13' 8" (4.17 m)
Armament:	Six .50-cal. machine guns

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Fw-190

Admittedly, the Fw 190 is the best World War 2 German fighter plane. It was intended to replace the Messerschmitt Bf 109. When it first entered battle, during the summer of 1941, it would outclass the British Spitfire Mk.V. The threat was countered with the introduction of the Spitfire Mk.IX and the Typhoon.

The early versions of the Fw 190 would use the BMW 801as a powerplant. This was the first German radial engine to be used in a fighter. The engine showed a tendency to overheating – the cockpit temperature would sometimes exceed 50 °C. But the plane was the fastest and could turn on a dime, making it the most dangerous fighter when it appeared.

The design of this military aircraft also made it a good fit for ground attack, and it was used as such on the East front and in North Africa. From 1942 on, it also was the most extensively used fighter plane to intercept allied bombers flying over Germany and occupied european countries.

In 1943, the radial engines were replaced with piston engines that were more powerful. This made the fuselage longer, hence the nickname "Long Nose" given to the new Fw 190s by the Allies. These new engines rendered the aircraft even more performing. This version’s cockpit was pressurized.

The latest versions of the Fw 190 could reach 755 Km/h (472 mph). 

Type:	Single-seat fighter / interceptor
Engine:	1,600hp BMW 801C-1, 14-cylinder air-cooled radial or 1,700hp Junkers Jumo 213A-1, V12 liquid-cooled
Max speed:	684 km/h (425 mph)
Ceiling:	10 300 m (33,800 ft.)
Range:	800 km (500 mi.)
Weight (empty):	3 470 kg (7,650 lb.)
Weight(loaded):	4 900 kg (10,800 lb.)
Wingspan:	8,96 m (29 ft. 5 in.)
Lenght:	9,12 m (29 ft. 11 in.)
Height:	3,96 m (13 ft.)
Armament:	Four 7.92mm machine guns or two 20 mm cannon + two 7.92 mm machine guns; up to 500 kg (1000 lb.) of bom

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THE BIG BROTHER

Boeing B-29 Superfortress

3,895 planes produced, entered service 1944.

B-29 specs: top speed 365 MPH, 12 machine guns, max. bomb load 20,000 lbs.

What was the most expensive military project of World War Two? ... It wasn't the atom bomb (the Manhattan Project). It was the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Cost? $3 billion, the most expensive weapon of World War II. Only used in the Pacific, to rain both conventional and atomic destruction on Japan's cities, the B-29 surely justified the cost of its development.

Development

As early as 1934, Boeing began working on several prototypes (Model 322, 333A, 333B, 334A, and 341) with features that ultimately came together in the B-29, among them: a pressurized cabin, tricycle landing gear, long range under heavy bomb loads, etc.. As the war in Europe boiled, the Army issued a specification for the Very Long Range (VLR) "superbomber" in January 1940. It called for a speed of 400 MPH, a 5333 mile range, and a bomb load of 2000 pounds delivered at 2666 miles. With the work it had been doing, Boeing was at an advantage over the other competitors: Consolidated, Douglas, and Lockheed.
Even before the prototype was built, the Army ordered a second one, and then in the wake of Pearl Harbor, ordered a thousand more. Boeing dedicated its Renton factory to the B-29; the Glenn Martin Company started production in Omaha.

Model 345

To meet the specs of the VLR bomber noted above, Boeing designed the Model 345 - a four engine bomber with tricycle landing gear (folding into the huge engine nacelles), five gun turrets, and weighing almost 100,000 pounds. Submitted in May, 1940, the Model 345 won an Army to develop it into the XB-29 prototype. . By August, Douglas and Lockheed had dropped out, and the Army issued a contract to Consolidated for the XB-32, as a backup to Boeing's favored XB-29.
During 1941, the Army increased its order, from three prototypes, to fourteen, then 250, and then (after Pearl Harbor) 1500. All before the first prototype had flown! With the country on a wartime footing, three other factories were drawn into B-29 production (in addition to Boeing's own Wichita, Kansas plant): Bell Aircraft's factory in Marietta, Georgia; Glenn Martin in Omaha; Boeing-Renton, and GM's Fisher Body plant in Cleveland.

XB-29 Prototype

The XB-29 had wings that were as small as possible, with large radial engines outside them. While crew space fore and aft had to be pressurized, the bomb bays (with their huge doors) could not be. To deal with this problem, Boeing linked the front and rear pressurized sections with a sealed tunnel. The relatively small wings meant low drag but also very high wing-loading, double the desirable limit of 1940. Four Wright Cyclone 3350 engines with two turbosuperchargers each were able to handle the challenge. Problems like preventing guns and propeller mechanisms from freezing at high altitudes abounded.
A very strong ring section connected the two wings and separated the two bomb bays.
At altitudes of 30,000 feet, manned gun turrets were impractical and Sperry developed retractable, periscopically directed, electrically powered turrets for the B-29. The normal crew of twelve included a pilot, co-pilot, bombardier, navigator, flight engineer, radio operator, radar operator, and five gunners. The first seven guys occupied the forward pressurized cabin. Four gunners were in the rear cabin, and the poor tail gunner was trapped in his own little pressurized pocket in the tail for the duration of the flight.
Boeing test pilot Edmund T. "Eddie" Allen made the first XB-29 flight in September, 1942. In the next few months, the engines' tendency to catch fire severely limited test flight time. In 23 test flights, they went through 16 engines, in only 27 hours of flight time. Under the urgent demands of war, a second prototype rolled out in December, 1942, and the project moved forward, unslowed even by the death of Eddie Allen and 30 others in a February crash.

YB-29

By mid-1943, the Wichita plant started to deliver the fourteen YB-29 service test aircraft to the 58th Bomb Wing. In the YB-29's, Sperry's turrets were replaced by non-retractable GE types, operated with computerized gunsights. The GE turrets could be operated with on eless gunner, but their demands for electrical power increased the weight of the aircraft to 105,000 pounds.

B-29

Two-thirds of the Superfortresses built were B-29's, with no letter suffix, just B-29. 2,513 of this variant were built: 1620 by Boeing-Wichita, 536 by Martin-Omaha, and 357 by Bell-Marietta.
Powered by four 2200 hp Wright R-3350-23 radial engines driving 16-foot, 7-inch four-bladed propellers, the B-29 could cruise at 342 MPH at 30,000 feet. Over long distances, its economical cruising speed was 220 MPH at 25,000 feet. In September, 1943, the first B-29's rolled off the assembly line at Wichita, followed by deliveries from the other plants over the next several months. A few early B-29's were camouflage painted; the rest were left in natural metal finish. Thirty fuel tanks (in the wings and the bomb bay) carried over 9400 gallons of gasoline. Radar-assisted navigation and bombing sets helped the Superforts get to their targets and drop their bombs accurately.
Like most other bombers, the B-29's development was marked by an increase in defensive firepower, particularly from frontal attacks. In the B-29's case, the forward dorsal turret machine guns were increased from two to four. However, in the tail, the original 20mm cannon was removed, because its shells' trajectory was so different from the 50 caliber machine guns' that it made aiming difficult.

Bombing Japan

After the Casablanca Conference in early 1943, President Roosevelt committed the United States to a heavy bombing campaign against Japan, at the earliest possible date. The B-29 was the only bomber with the range and payload needed; thus Roosevelt constantly hammered General Hap Arnold to deliver the big bomber. As plans for Operation Matterhorn took shape, they envisaged basing the B-29's in eastern India, flying them over "the Hump," staging/refueling at Chengtu in central China, and then bombing Japanese cities.
But the bombers weren't ready, not in January, 1994 as Roosevelt had hoped. Training the crews in the complex new aircraft proved to be a major challenge. By the beginning of 1944, only 73 pilots had qualified for the B-29, and although 97 B-29s had been produced, only 16 were combat ready. Engine fires continued to be a problem and the radar equipment proved to be very touchy. While the USAAF had set up the XX Bomber Command to take over the B-29 program, by early, 1944 it was still a shambles, with most planes stuck at the modification centers. In March, Major General B.E. Meyer was appointed to head up the modification program, and thus commenced "the Battle of Kansas." Mobilizing the vast industrial resources of the United States, workers were brought in to work round the clock, outdoors in the freezing Kansas winter weather if necessary, to get some B-29's delivered. By mid April, they had turned over 150.
In April, 1944, B-29's began arriving at their bases in Bengal, India: Kharagpur, Chakulia, Piardoba, and Dudkhundi. At the same time, the 20th Air Force, an independent command, was established, largely to prevent local commanders like Stilwell and Chennault from diverting the B-29's away from their primary mission - bombing Japan. Engines continued to overheat and catch fire, a tendency exacerbated by the 115 degree heat of India. The engineers designed new baffles and cowl flaps to direct cooling air onto the overheated rear cylinders. In early April, the B-29's were blooded when six Ki-43 Hayabusa fighters jumped some that were flying fuel into Chengtu. By May, 130 Superfortresses had reached India and the staging bases near Chengtu, China were usable, if barely so. But forwarding the needed fuel and bombs to Chengtu over "the Hump" was hazardous and inefficient.

The Yawata Mission

On June 5, the Superforts made their first bombing attack, against the rail yards at Bangkok. Balky engines and bad weather conspired to cripple the mission. Only eighteen bombs hit the target. Not a good start.
Washington continued to pressure General Wolfe, CO of XX Bomber Command, to attack Japan itself by the middle of the month. On the night of June 14-15, ninety-two B-29's took off from staging bases in China, to strike at the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata on Kyushu - a vital target that turned out a quarter of Japan's rolled steel. The diminishing number of bombers at each stage of the mission illustrates the problems inherent in Operation Matterhorn:

• 92 bombers left India.
• 79 reached the staging bases in China.
• 75 took off from the bases.
• 68 left China, the others aborted after take-off.
• 47 reached the target at Yawata.
• 15 bombed visually; 32 bombed by radar due to the weather.
• One bomb hit the target!

Despite the failure of the raid in material damage, the press hailed it as a great victory; it was the first American bombing raid to hit Japan since the Doolittle Raid in April, 1942.
The Matterhorn raids continued. Eighteen bombers hit Japanes cities on July 7. Two days later, 72 Superforts were launched against a steel plant in Manchuria. More ineffective raids were staged in August.
General Curtis LeMay, only 38 years old, arrived on August 29, to head up XX Bomber Command. A cigar-chomping tough guy, LeMay shook things up. He increased training and mission frequency; he re-organized the flights into 12-plane boxes; he introduced the 'lead bomber' concept; and he re-organized the Bomb Groups. Raids continued through the fall, hampered by supply problems and more effective Japanese air defenses. By the end of 1944, 147 Superfortresses had been lost to enemy guns and to accidents. Operation Matterhorn wasn't working and it was phased out.

From the Marianas

U.S. military planners had realized quite early that the Marianas (Saipan, Tinian, and Guam), located about 1500 south of Tokyo would be useful bases from which to launch B-29 attacks against Japan. In the summer of 1944, the Marianas were secured and airfields were quickly built. XXI Bomber Command was organized for the Marianas B-29 operations. After the planes were brought in, the crews trained, and some preliminary raids, 111 Superforts bombed the Nakajima Aircraft Company's Musashi engine plant near Tokyo on November 20, 1944. Largely ineffective raids continued against the Musashi plant and the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya through the end of the year.

Once again the Joint Chiefs called in Curtis LeMay to take over. He had analyzed the Japanese economy and focused on its dependence on small cottage industries spread throughout the large cities. Since the previous afforts at high-level precision, daylight bombing of specific targets had failed, LeMay instead proposed to burn out the Japanese cities entirely, destroying the critical industries (and the civilian population) in the process. (Not exactly the way we wage war now, where every errant bomb that hits an Afghan camel must be accounted for.)
LeMay developed a radically different approach. First, the bombers would carry incendiary, rather than high explosive, bombs. To save fuel and maximize the bomb load, the guns were stripped out, the Superforts would fly at 5,000 (instead of 30,000) feet, and each plane would fly directly to the target (no more circling and joining up in formation). These allowed each Superfort to carry about seven tons of M69 incendiary bombs. Lastly, they would go at night, since precision was no longer required and because Japanese night fighter forces were not very good.
The results were devastating. On the night of March 9-10, 279 B-29's bombed Tokyo. A huge firestorm resulted, sixteen square miles of Tokyo were reduced to ashes and 84,000 Japanese were killed. In the next week, similar, but less destructive, results were obtained in Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe. Only twenty B-29s were lost. XXI Bomber Command exhausted its supply of incendiaries for a while, but when resupplied in April continued the terrible raids with awesome fury. The industrial areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kawasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama were reduced to ashes. The aircraft engine factories (or their general areas) were hit again with incendiary bombing. By mid-April, Japanese aircraft engine manufacturing capability had been wiped out. The incendiary raids continued through June, reducing Japans' six largest cities to ashes. Kobe was so thoroughly gutted that it was removed from the target list. B-29 Hunters of the JAAF (Osprey Aviation Elite 5) by Koji Takaki, Henry Sakaida
More B-29's arrived in the Marianas, including those from the former XX Bomber Command and some B-29B's, specifically lightened for nighttime pathfinding. The Superfortress missions expanded to include mining the Inland Sea and firebombing 58 smaller cities. The Japanese fighter forces had been routed. Almost unopposed, the B-29's began dropping leaflets three days in advance of their incendiary raids, advising inhabitants of their city's impending destruction.

The Atomic Bomb

Long before the incendiary raids began to devastate Japan, the United States had been developing the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project, in highest secrecy during 1943 and 1944, built two such bombs, a plutonium bomb dubbed "Fat Man," and a uranium bomb, "Little Boy." The 509th Composite Group was charged with delivering the new bombs, in specially modified B-29's, each capable of carrying and releasing a 10,000 pound atomic bomb. Commanded by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., the men of the 509th knew nothing of their proposed mission. Nonetheless, they trained for their secret mission at Wendover, Utah before shipping out to Tinian, where they endured a lot of ribbing from guys in other units, "Oh, yeah, the 509th is gonna win the war."
After the first successful test of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico, planning accelerated, and the Allies were informed, although Soviet spies had already kept Stalin fully apprised of developments. On July 26th, the Potsdam Declaration, an ultimatum which promised prompt and utter destruction, was issued to the Japanese. Well aware of the huge casualties that the Allies would incur in an invasion of Japan and determined to shorten the war, President Truman gave General Carl Spaatz the go-ahead to drop the atomic bomb. "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were delivered to Tinian by USS Indianapolis and by C-54 transport planes. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. 75,000 people died and almost 50,000 buildings were destroyed. (Read more about Tibbets, the Enola Gay, and this mission.)
The Allies had expected, or perhaps hoped, that Japan would surrender after suffering the effects of an atomic bomb. But the Japanese government could not commit itself to surrender so quickly. In part they did not understand what had happened; in Tokyo all that was immediately certain was that all communications with Hiroshima had stopped. While the Japanes cabinet debated, conventional B-29 raids continued, in ever increasing force. Three days later, with no response from the Japanese, we dropped "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. (Personally, I try to avoid second guessing, and I am convinced that dropping the atomic bomb was the right decision, and that it ultimately saved both American and Japanese lives. But I do wonder if we should have let a few more days pass before dropping that second one. I guess by August of 1945, we were tired of war.)
But it worked. That day the Soviets declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria. The Emperor ordered the government to surrender. He broadcast word of the surrender to the Japanese people on August 15, and it was signed on the decks of the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.
The B-29's last missions of the war consisted of mercy food drops to POW camps.

Soviet Tu-4

In late 1944, three B-29's had to land in Vladivostok. At the time the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan. The crews were briefly interned, and then permitted to "escape." But the B-29's stayed behind.
In 1947, at a parade in Moscow, the Tu-4 flew over; it was an exact replica of the B-29. In the early years of the Cold War, the Tu-4 gave the American military planners fits, because it was the first Soviet airplane with the capability to drop nuclear bombs on the Unied States.

The Korean War

Within days of North Korea's invasion of the south on June 25, 1950, Superfortresses were attacking Communist troops, tanks, trucks, and other tactical targets. By August, with the war going badly, they were okayed for raids against strategic targets in the north: bridges, rail yards, and factories. After the Inchon landings in September, the B-29's turned again to tactical missions, because UN forces controlled most of North Korea.
The massive Chinese intervention across the Yalu in November changed the war again. As they pushed the UN armies back below the 38th parallel, the B-29's again went after troop concentrations. And Chinese intervention also brought the MiG-15 jet fighter into the conflict; now the B-29's were confronted by an extremely capable interceptor. In early 1951, B-29 losses to the MiGs increased, despite F-80 and F-84 escorts and high altitudes. Eventually, the Superfortresss were limited to night bombing missions, which kept their losses down.
B-29 gunners were credited with downing 27 MiGs, making the aircraft the second-highest scoring aircraft, after the F-86 Sabre. One B-29, Command Decision, shot down five MiGs, making the aircraft an ace of sorts.

Surviving B-29 Aircraft

Relatively few B-29's survive today, in part because (unlike the B-17) they were not declared war surplus after WWII.
Serial number - comment
42-6376 - to storage at Davis Monthan 6/27/49
42-65281, Miss America '62 - at Travis AFB Museum, CA
42-27297, Bock's Car - the Nagasaki bomber, now on display at WPAFB Museum, OH
44-27343 - at Tinker AFB Air Park, OK
44-61975 - at New England Air Museum
44-69729 - on display at Seattle Museum of Flight, WA
44-69972 - stored on range at Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA, moved to United States Air Museum, Inyokern, CA and is under restoration
44-70016 - at Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ
44-70064 - on display at Castle AFB Museum, plane is actually made up of three derelict targets from China Lake
44-84076 - on display at SAC Museum, Offutt AFB, NE
44-86292, Enola Gay - dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
44-86408 - used to collect radioactive samples during postwar atomic tests, now on display at Hill AFB Museum
44-87779 - at South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB
45-21763, Kee Bird - abandoned after landing frozen lake in Greenland, during to recover, caught fire and burned May 21, 1995. Check out PBS Nova episode about the efforts to recover Kee Bird.
45-21787, Fertile Myrtle - used as carrier aircraft for D-558-II, registered as NACA 137, now with Weeks Air Museum, Miami, FL
45-21800 - used as "mothership" for X-1 trials
45-21801 - used by NACA between 1945 and 1955

Handley Page Hampden

Specifications (Handley Page Hampden
Type: Four-Seat bomber (later torpedo bomber and minelayer).
Origin: Handley Page
Models: H.P. 52 Hampden I and H.P. 53 Hereford I
First Flight:
Prototype H.P. 52: June 31, 1936
Production Hampden I: May 1938
Production Hereford I: December 1939
Service Delivery: 1939
Production Halted: March 1942
Number Produced:
1,430 Hampdens (Handley Page 500, English Electric 770, Canadian Associated Aircraft 150)
100 Herefords were built by Short Brothers but failed to achieve operational status, many rebuilt as Hampdens.

Engine:
Hampden I

• Model: Bristol Pegasus XVIII
• Type: 9-Cylinder air cooled radial
• Number: Two Horsepower: 1,000 hp

Hereford I

• Model: Napier Dagger VIII
• Type: 24-Cylinder air cooled H-type
• Number: Two Horsepower: 1,000 hp

Dimensions:

• Wing span: 69 ft. 2 in. (21.98m)
• Length: 53 ft. 7 in. (16.33m)
• Height: 14 ft. 4 in. (4.37m)
• Wing Surface Area: N/A

Weights:
Empty:

• Hampden: 11,780 lb. (5344 kg)
• Hereford: 11,700 lb. (5308 kg)

Loaded:

• Hampden: 18,756 lb. (8508 kg)
• Hereford: 16,000 lb. (7257 kg)

Performance:
Maximum Speed:
Hampden: 254 mph (410 km/h)
Initial Climb: 980 ft/min (300 m/min)
Service Ceiling: 19,000 ft. (5790m)
Range (Fully loaded): 1,095 miles (1762 km)
Armament:
One .303 in. Vickers fixed forward.
One .303 in. Lewis manually aimed from nose by nav/bomb aimer.
One .303 in. Lewis manually aimed by wireless operator from upper rear position. One .303 in. Lewis manually aimed by lower rear gunner.
By January 1940 both rear positions refitted with twin Vickers and increased firing arcs.
Payload: 4,000 lb. (1814 kg.) of bombs internally

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de Havilland Mosquito

Specifications (de Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito FB.Mk VI)
Type: Two Seat Fighter Bomber, Reconnaissance & Night Fighter
Design: de Havilland Design Team
Manufacturer: The de Havilland Aircraft Company, Hatfield and Leavesden, also built by Airspeed, Percival Aircraft and Standard Motors (Canley). Built by de Havilland Aircraft Pty, in Australia and de Havilland Aircraft of Canada.
Powerplant: (Mks II, III, IV and early Vs) Two 1,230 hp (918 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 21 engines. (Late FB.Mk VI) Two 1,635 hp (1219 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 25 engines. (Mk IX) Two 1,680 hp (1253 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 72 engines. (Mk XVI) Two 1,680 hp (1253 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 72 or 1,710 hp (1276 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 73/77 engines. (Mk 30) Two 1,710 hp (1276 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 76 engines. (Mk 33) Two 1,635 hp (1219 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 25 engines. (Mk 34/35/36) Two 1,690 hp (1260 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 113/114 engines. Many other variants had corresponding Merlins made by Packard.
Performance: Maximum speed 362 mph (583 km/h) at 5,500 ft (1675 m); maximum cruising speed 325 mph (523 km/h) at 15,000 ft (4570 m); service ceiling 33,000 ft (10060 m); initial climb rate of 1,870 ft per minute with a climb to 15,000 ft in 9 minutes 30 seconds.
Fuel: 453 Imp gal (544 US gal) plus provision for a 66.5 Imp gal (79.9 US gal) fuselage tank. (Externally) Up to 200 Imp gal (240 US gal) in 2 × 100 or 50 Imp gal (120 or 60 US gal) underwing droptanks.
Range: 1,650 miles (2655 km) with internal bombload.
Weight: Empty 14,300 lbs (6486 kg) with a loaded take-off weight of 22,300 lbs (10115 kg).
Dimensions: Span 54 ft 2 in (16.51 m); length 40 ft 10 3/4 in (12.47 m); height 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m); wing area 454 sq ft (42.18 sq m).
Armament: Four 20 mm Hispano Mk II cannon with 150 rounds per gun in the lower nose and four 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Browning Mk II machine-guns in the upper nose plus 2,000 lbs (907 kg) of bombs or 1,000 lbs (454 kg) of bombs and eight 60 lbs rocket projectiles.
History: First flight (prototype Mk I) 25 November 1940; first flight (NF.Mk II) 15 May 1941; first flight (T.Mk III) January 1942; first delivery (B.Mk IV) 105 Squadron at Swanton Morley in November 1941.
Operators: Austraila, Belguim, Canada (RCAF), China, Czechoslavakia, France, Yugoslavia, New Zealand, Norway, Soviet Union, Turkey, United Kingdom (RAF, RN, BOAC), United States (AAF).
Number Built: 7,781
Number Still Airworthy: One (Previously airworthy, but has not flown for the last few years.)
Nicknames: Mossie; Balsa Bomber; Wooden Wonder; Freeman's Folly (early nickname referring to Air Council member Sir Wilfred Freeman); Tsetse (Mk XVIII anti-shipping variant).

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STEALTH AIRCRAFT

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B-2 Spirit stealth bomber

Pesawat siluman (bahasa Inggris: stealth aircraft) atau disebut pesawat amat senyap^[1] adalah pesawat yang dirancang untuk menyerap dan membelokkan radar menggunakan teknologi siluman, membuatnya lebih sulit untuk dideteksi. Pada umumnya tujuannya adalah melancarkan serangan selagi dia masih berada di luar pendeteksian musuh. F-117 Nighthawk adalah salah satu jenis pesawat siluman yang digunakan angkatan udara Amerika Serikat dalam Perang Teluk.

Pesawat siluman memiliki kemampuan untuk menghindari pendeteksian, baik deteksi secara visual, audio, sensor panas, maupun gelombang radio (radar). Secara visual, pesawat lebih sulit untuk terlihat bila mempunyai warna yang sama dengan warna latar belakangnya (kamuflase). Secara audio, tentunya berusaha untuk membuat pesawat semakin tenang. Secara sensor panas, pesawat biasanya dideteksi dari panas yang timbul dari badannya atau dari temperatur udara di sekelilingnya. Bagian paling panas dari pesawat biasanya adalah saluran buangan udara mesin atau exhaust dan leading edge (bagian pesawat yang pertama membelah udara). Panas dari exhaust bisa dikurangi dengan cara mencampur semburan mesin dengan udara dingin dari luar badan pesawat sebelum dihembuskan keluar pesawat dan memperpanjang pipa exhaust (seperti A-4 Skyhawk Indonesia yang mempunyai exhaust lebih panjang dibanding versi standarnya). Bagian exhaust ini biasanya dikejar oleh rudal anti-pesawat dengan sensor inframerah. Akan tetapi rudal pencari panas modern kini juga memiliki kemampuan untuk mendeteksi dan mengejar panas yang dihasilkan akibat pergesekan permukaan badan pesawat dengan udara.

Deteksi secara gelombang radio adalah dengan cara mencegah gelombang radio dari radar tidak terpantul dari badan pesawat dan kembali ke radar. Gelombang radio tersebut bisa diserap jika badan pesawat dilapisi RAM (Radar Absorbent Material), dipantulkan ke arah lain, atau sedemikian sehingga gelombang tersebut menjadi hilang atau saling meniadakan (hal inilah yang mendasari bentuk pesawat siluman yang mempunyai bentuk yang lain dari pesawat biasa atau agak aneh).

Pesawat siluman biasanya tidak 100% tidak terdeteksi radar. Tetapi karena memiliki RCS (Radar Cross Section) yang kecil maka di layar radar hanya tampak sebesar gerombolan burung, bukan pesawat.

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