Originally Posted by
TBM-Legend
I guess the B-49 was one of the earliest "stealth" designs..
Not really, it was designed that way for other reasons and radar stealth wasn't really on the agenda at that time.
On the other hand - the Mosquito a few years earlier was very much a stealth aircraft and the radar near-invisibility of the wooden airframe was used to good effect. Again however, that was probably luck rather than something at the design stage.
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