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Declassified documents reveal Air Force’s plan to build a UFO
IO9 ^
| October 8, 2012
| Cyriaque Lamar
Posted on 10/08/2012 8:09:58 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
How to Build a FLYING SAUCER
Declassified documents reveal Air Forces plan to build a UFO
Here's a quirky find from the National Archives: the United States Air Force's 1956 plan to build a saucer-shaped aircraft that would zip across the skies with the greatest of ease. As the Archives explain of "Project 1794, Final Development Summary Report":
The Air Force had contracted the work out to a Canadian company, Avro Aircraft Limited in Ontario, to construct the disk-shaped craft. According to the same report, it was designed to be a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) plane designed to reach a top speed of Mach 4, with a ceiling of over 100,000 feet, and a range of over 1,000 nautical miles.
And how much would this entire enterprise cost? From Project 1794:
Development and production aspects are briefly reviewed and an outline new program broader in scope than the study now completed is presented (to dovetail with the development envisaged), together with an accompanying cost estimate. This estimate covers a period of 18 to 24 months in the total amount of $3,168,000.
You can read more at the National Archives. It must be noted that even in the public sphere of the 1950s flying saucers were touted as the next great innovation in commuter transportation.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans; Science; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1950s; airforce; artbell; canada; declassified; flyingsaucer; militarytechnology; ufo; usaf
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$3,168,000 here, $3,168,000 there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:11:35 PM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:12:10 PM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
UFO.
UNIDENTIFIED flying object.
You would think that if they had plans to build something, it would be IDENTIFIED.
/johnny
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:17:04 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: DogByte6RER
That is just silly, a UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object, if we know who built it - it is not unidentified.
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:22:50 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Joe 6-pack
I built a UFO once. It even glowed in the dark.
Never attempted to build a flying car though...
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:23:20 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: DogByte6RER; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:23:35 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
To: DogByte6RER; All
The Air Force would actually have been building a “FO” not an “UFO”
Since the “Air Force” would have been building it...it would not be “Unidentified”...Am I right?
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:24:20 PM PDT
by
SeminoleCounty
(Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Joe 6-pack
I don't know who licensed the molds but apparently this was THE kit and available for decades (including when I was growing up). Don't recall what the box looked like, probably something more like this (without the "limited edition" disclaimer).
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:25:07 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:25:37 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:28:43 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Squawk 8888
The US screwed you guys with help from your government, Avro especially, with some BS contracts. The Avro Arrow was ahead of it's time.
Sorry. Hit me up for a free beer next time you see me.
/johnny
To: svcw
It’s unidentified if they dismiss it as a sighting of the USS Swamp Gas.
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:30:07 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: zot; SeraphimApprentice
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:32:38 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: a fool in paradise
It says on the box 1/48th scale. UFOs must be real or how would they know the scale? ;^)
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:34:21 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
To: DogByte6RER
If you know what it it is, it is not a UFO. Unidentified Flying Object. You could call it a IFO.
To: SeminoleCounty
Well... Technically, at least from the standpoint of some of those on the receiving end, the U.S. Air Force has used quite a few UFO’s. WE call them Stealth Fighters and Stealth Bombers. Those on the receiving end “never knew what hit them”.
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posted on
10/08/2012 8:36:44 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
To: JRandomFreeper
To: DogByte6RER
It's not really news. I remember reading about the AVRO disk in a book called: Flying Saucers, Serious Business by Frank Edwards in 1968 or 1969. The stability problems with the Air Force prototypes were cited by UFO aficionados as proof that flying saucers really had to have some special sauce from an "advanced technology."
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posted on
10/08/2012 9:01:55 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Andrew Sullivan. The blind pig who found a truffle on 9/11.)
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