Dusty,
Definitely no intent to get stealth properties.
He 162 was designed as short distance fighter (max. flight duration 45 min)in order to attack day bombers over own territory. Heinkel had enough problems with stability (probably same story as Ta 154) of wooden wings. He was proud to deliver the plane in less than 200 day from order to flying prototype - the engine position (as an example) was only choosen to avoid extensive testing. No time for any sophisticated planning.(E Heinkel, Stürmisches Leben)

dont know stealth capable but germans had lack of proper materials like aluminiun an other metal so they had to use what ewer they got.

Tim,

Actually, Northrup did not rip off anything. Northrup was working on the B-35/B-49 design, in the United States, at the same time that the Horton brothers were designing the GO-229 in Germany.

The original reason that the GO-229 was constructed of composite materials was that the Germans did not have sufficient stocks of aluminum at that time in the war. Both the German engineers and the Northrup people discovered the stealth feature of the flying wing design by accident, at approximately the same time, by noting that the test aircraft were extremely difficult to track on radar. The Germans realized the importance of this discovery and tried to improve this feature of the design. The US Army Air Force, with the end of the war in sight and almost total air superiority over Germany established, just made note of the discovery.

When the B-2 was proposed, the engineers dragged out and reviewed the data on both of these aircraft. You might be interested to note that the overall dimensions of the B-2 are exactly the same as the B-35/B-49.

Dusty-- the aircraft technical data you speak of went into Gotha
GO-229, the forerunner of today's B-2. A 229 still sits in a hangar at
Ft.Meade, MD. It is a flying-wing design, which flew in two incarnations--- one powered by 4 Daimler pusher engines, then
4 Jumo jets. It never saw action. It was not "coated", but actually constructed of the composite materials you speak of, with carbon fibers for airframe strengthening. I have personally seen this aircraft while I was in the Army-- Northrup in essence ripped-off a
50-year-old design in building the B-2. Hope this info was of some help.

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WAS THE HE-162, BY DESIGN, STEALTH CAPABLE, WITH LITTLE OR NO RADAR
SIGNATURE?? DID THE GERMANS COAT THE HE-162 WITH A COMPOND OF SAWDUST
AND CARBON TO MAKE IT MORE STEALTH WORTHY???
THIS IS WHAT I HEARD, BUT CAN NOT CONFIRM.
PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS.