Posted on 10/16/2007 2:47:14 PM PDT by Stoat
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By Paul Wagenseil
GFS Projects Ltd.
GFS Projects' flying saucer in action.
Researchers in England have developed their own flying saucer — and it might be going to work for the U.S. and British militaries.
GFS Projects' unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can soar high in the air, hover, bank and fly over any terrain, making it ideal for military surveillance.
• Click here to see video of the craft in flight.
It uses an aerodynamic principle known as the Coanda effect to take off vertically from any solid surface.
A propeller mounted atop the two-foot-wide aircraft pushes air down over the saucer-shaped body, creating a broad cone of thrust extending outward.
"The key to it is that it's very stable," explains David Steel, a director at GFS Projects in Peterborough, a medium-sized English city about 75 miles north of London. "You have a large base of air extending downward supporting the craft, looking something like a woman's skirt."
GFS Projects Ltd.
GFS Projects' flying saucer in an indoor test run, with guide wire attached.
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Gotta keep em on a short leash?
Ping
Arm it with a couple Hellfire missiles and send it over the tribal areas where we suspect Zawahiri to be hiding....and scare him crapless.
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I guess I’ll just “hover” around slurping the coffee from the “saucer”.
Somehow it looked better in the movies.
Take me to your Mullah
Please also see post #6 of this thread :-)
Details, details.
Ever wonder why there seems to be a suspicious lack of UFO videos now that portable video recording equipment is so readily used now days? Before video cameras, every year we were treated to new still photos of UFOs. Seems there ought to be tons of videos available now.
Look heah, mistah. Evah time wunna them there ufo thingies lands on the roof-a mah trailer, the lights flickers out an all muh senstive lectronics fizzes out. They jus don wanna work no more.
Now how come it is them ufos looks like a hubcap off-a my Pacer, and the aliens talkin sounds like human teenagers a-laughin, I couldn’t tell ya. That’s jist the way them aliens is, you knowitall city-dweller. ;o)
all the aliens must have wiped out by some mass extinction event.
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