Göring goes for jets

I saw a great Special National Geographical Channel this summer called

"Hitlers Steath Fighter" it was about Horton HO 229 and the claims that this fighter was the first stealth fighter. In the program they build a fullscale model of the Horton HO 229 and tested it at the same place where the F117 was build and test. Surpricingly the fighter was stealth.

If Göring had gone for jets insteed of the old-school planes. And if Luftwaffe have had squarons of working HO 229 by 1940. Would we all be speaking German today?
 
There would have been a lot of dead German pilots without them ever going into combat flying a tailless aircraft without fly-by-wire.
 
The Ho-229 was not a fighter. It was intended to be a long-range bomber, maybe with applications as a fighter/bomber.
A much better early jet would be if they put Heinkel He-280 jets in production in '41 or '42. And put the Me-262 in production earlier, as well, maybe '43 or so.

Agh, it's like the Gelgoog all over again. :p
 
With the problems Germany had with their jet engines it would have been a bad move. It would also have spurred the Allies to accelerate their jet programs which had far more reliable power-plants.
 
This has been discussed a million times before. CalBear once put it in detail, but I think the gist was that the effectiveness of the wing in the form it was in was...questionable.
 
The program was a monumental waste of time and manpower building a full-scale mock-up to determine that the aircraft had a 20 percent reduction in RCS allowing a 2 minute reduction in the warning time in an attack on a Chain Home radar station. Stukas attacked Chain Home more accurately and my German is still nicht so gut. It did not address any other shortcomings of the aircraft or powerplants. It did not measure the aircraft with external bombload. Television does not seem a reliable source for accurate history.
 
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