[MikeNoun]

That's actually real, and very true. The National Geographic Channel ran a 1-hour documentary on the Horten Ho 229 (by the way, the author of the article you linked doesn't have a clue, he called it the 2-29), and they recreated the aircraft from original technical drawings, put it up on Lockheed's testing "pole" in the desert, and tested the radar signature. It was about 20% less than a typical aircraft. The design was intended to beat the English radar stations on the coast by getting close enough that the RAF would only have around 2 minutes to react, and this Horten 229 was so fast, there was no way Spitfires or Typhoons would have caught them anyway.

The more you read about the Luftwaffe secret projects, the more you realize they were years and years ahead of American and British development. The German engineers and designers were so advanced, several historians had said that when American and British designers saw (after the war) what they built, what was in process, and especially what was on the drawing board, they realized that the Germans could have easily won the war if it weren't for the ol' Adolf's incompetence.

The technology and designs from the German aircraft designers were what formed our post-war technology. The F-86 Sabre (and Soviet Mig) aircraft were lifted directly from Messerschmidt and Focke-Wulf designs that were on the drawing boards. The Messerschmidt 1101 was actually partially built when it discovered by Allied troops. It's obvious the Americans used this aircraft as the base for the F-86 Sabre. Our post-war rocket technology came straight from the V-2 program, and we used captured German scientists to develop our space program. Nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists, and they were close to developing their own A-bomb (luckily for us, Adolf's incompetence prevented its development before the end of the war), and the flying wing dates back to he 1930's gliders by the Horten Brothers in Germany. The delta wing was perfected in Germany too, and Lockheed used that technology to develop post-war aircraft.