Posted on 10/08/2012 8:09:58 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The model maker emailed GORT. He filled them in.....and right down to those forward firing twin Browning (you didn’t think he just invented for our planet didja?!) .501. cosmic sonic ion blasters mounted just ahead of that E.T pilot thingy to!!
Thanks for the ping. This concept was essentially a ducted fan. They built two small prototypes, one of which I have seen in the Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Interesting idea, but it didn’t fly out of ground effect.
I think it would be called an IFO, or Round Airplane~Craft or something. But not UFO.
I’d sure like to have an ion version Ma Deuce! ;-)
‘The Air Force would actually have been building a “FO” not an “UFO”’
Sorry, you’re wrong. A “FO” is what blacks in Cleveland get from Obama.
Bingo!
A lot of the stealth fighter tests were reported as UFO’s.
My brother retired from the Air Force and he was at some of those sites out in the deserts of Nevada and Utah.
He said they’d stage fun (after beers) by taking trucks with junk on them and covering them with tarps and then drive them into the gates and “drop” the tarp and scramble to put the parts (many covered in foil) back onto the truck and into a hangar.
They’d have a good laugh knowing the Art Bell folks were watching.
“Since the “Air Force” would have been building it...it would not be “Unidentified”...Am I right?”
I agree. The USAF is not obligated to share with the general public all it knows and does but some people think the world should know everything that went on at Area 51 and now at Area 111.
You would think that if they had plans to build something, it would be IDENTIFIED."
You clearly have no idea how government spending works /s
Radical design. I wonder how they came up with it.
About the same time, didn’t AVRO build that Canadian fighter that crashed repeatedly..
Thanks DogByte6RER. The WWII-era German flying saucer reportedly exceeded the speed of sound during flight tests, but of course it isn’t well documented. It’s very, very lucky that Herr Schickelgruber was an drooling incompetent in the military sphere.
FWIW pings..
Films of the AVRO have been around for years. The thing was so unstable that they had to tether it, and only “fly” a couple feet off the ground. The thing was a complete boondoggle.
Tesla claimed he could build one though, in 1919!
“I am now planning aerial machines devoid of supporters planes, ailerons, propellers and other external attachments, which will be capable of immense speeds.”
Re: #12
I remember that episode. Scared the dickens out of me!
LOL
If it was highly classified, they would not be going around identifying it to any accidental observers, now would they?
Yawn. There’s a USAF flying saucer prototype on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton OH. Its in the research plane hangar on the Wright Field reservation. To see it you need to get to the museum early and register for one of the hourly bus trips over there. The saucer is neat, but seems pretty small and unimpresive. Maybe because it’s sitting next to the XB-70.
Also neat are the Flying Jeeps/hovercars on display at Ft Eustis VA.
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