On Feb 9, 11:43*am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
"Terry Casey" wrote in message

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"Terry Casey" wrote in message
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Looking back in hindsight, it would have been very likely that if
Europe
was
not invaded in 1994, by 1946 the Luftwaffe would of had a jet engine
bomber that was undetectable until 20 miles of the coast, able to
fly to New York and an atomic bomb to drop from it.

Not a bomber - it would have been the A10 rocket.

No, there was also a super bomber based on conventional technology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_Bomber

"The most promising proposals were based on conventional principles of
aircraft design and would have yielded aircraft very similar in
configuration and capability to the Allied heavy bombers of the day..."

Which conflicts with the idea of a stealth bomber ...

Right. It wasn't jet powered, either. The jet engines of the day had service
lives measured in integer hours, which means that a flight from Europe to
the US would be pretty much guaranteed to fail. Fuel economy was miserable
as well.

The TBO of the first production German turbojet engine, the Junkers
Jumo 004, was 25 hours. I don't recall specific fuel economy but it
was not terribly worse than second generation axial flow turbojets,
such as the GE J-47 that powered the B-47 and many fighters. One of
which flew over my house a couple of weeks ago-a great noise. Since a
jet sortie of this magnitude would have been a twelve hour flight, it
would have worked.

The Jumo 004 was a very advanced engine, all considered, and with
better hot section materials and a later fuel control system would
have been a credible engine fifteen or twenty years later. Even today
it would be an interesting project, if "interesting" would finance a
high six/low seven figure sum. Hey, it would create employment, unlike
the supposedly shovel ready projects of the imbecilic leadership we
have today.

A better plan for the Germans would have been a B-36 scale aircraft
powered by another Junkers project, the opposed piston diesels which
could make maximum use of turbocharging and thus fly at an altitude
the US had nothing to intercept it with, neither AAA, anti aircraft
missiles nor fighters. Specially modified B-36 aircraft, it is now
forgotten, were capable of reaching altitudes equaling the first
generation U-2s, I think the record was something like 66,300 feet.