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Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 06:24:42 No.1210560 View View Reply Original Report

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What are your thoughts on flying saucers?

We had some cool prototypes back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, but after that, it seems that companies and governments lost interest. Now they're just a sci-fi trope associated with aliens and UFOs.

NASA recently started using designs reminiscent of flying saucers for their space program but they're not meant for transporting humans.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 06:27:50 No.1210561 Report

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>>1210560
This was one of the earliest designs. It wasn't really a true flying saucer but more like a conventional plane with saucer shaped wings. It flew in 1944 during World War II.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 06:38:00 No.1210564 Report

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>>1210561
Here is another one. The Vought XF5U (aka. the Flying Pancake).

Unlike the earlier Sack AS-6 which was designed by the Nazis, this one was an American design. Two were built but never flew and the introduction of newer jet aircraft in the late 1940s meant the project was ultimately canceled in 1947.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 06:44:44 No.1210565 Report

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>>1210560
>companies and governments lost interest
good. i'm scared of flying round things, cause I was hit by a frisbee when I was a kid.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 06:51:18 No.1210566 Report

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>>1210564
Last but not least, the Avrocar.

This one was a Canadian-American design and was designed to be a true flying saucer unlike the other two. It was originally intended to act as a "flying jeep" and ultimately replace the helicopter as the main VTOL aircraft in the U.S. Air Force.

Projected performance was comparable to a high-performance helicopter of the era, with a 225 knots (417 km/h) maximum speed, 10,000 feet (3,000 m) ceiling, and 130 mile (209 km) range.

The project was canceled in 1961 after it was discovered that the craft could only hover a few feet above ground and would become unstable if it went any higher. Furthermore, it generated so much heat during its operation that all its instruments were baked brown after only a few flights.

Guru

Guru Sat 07 Jul 2018 07:23:18 No.1210570 Report

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>Nazis invented them towards the end of ww2
>They're ludicrously fast
>They use a lot of energy at these extreme velocities so they have been pretty limited in range and capacity
>They got paperclipped and now US has them, Russia too maybe

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 07:48:31 No.1210580 Report

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Why not just do those bwb plane

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Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 08:01:03 No.1210586 Report

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>>1210570
>They got paperclipped and now US has them, Russia too maybe

I've heard this theory before. There are even some purported photos and schematics of the craft(s) online although I have no idea of their veracity.

Anoɳymous

Anoɳymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 09:00:00 No.1210600 Report

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>>1210561
Aha yeah, can you provide a credible sauce on that? I know the nazis built or at least designed a bunch of crazy contraptions like the Gotha Go 229 flying wing or the Maus super heavy tank, but this looks straight out of a Command & Conquer game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 09:10:19 No.1210602 Report

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>>1210580
Those aren't VTOL. A true flying saucer should be a VTOL craft like a helicopter.

>>1210600
Sack AS-6:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_AS-6

To say that it flew during World War II is technically true but maybe a bit misleading since it never actually saw combat and was never produced in large numbers. Instead, only a few prototypes were built and tested. It turned out that the circular design didn't make for good flight characteristics so after a few test flights, the concept was shelved.

Anoɳymous

Anoɳymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 09:15:31 No.1210606 Report

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>>1210602
Thanks
Well, according to the article you just linked, all that the designer accomplished was one (1) wooden prototype that made a few hops off the ground and had multiple grave design errors. Before that, there was a four foot wide remote controlled model/prototype that couldn't even get off the ground at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jul 2018 09:58:50 No.1210611 Report

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>>1210606
Yup. The first five prototypes (AS-1 to AS-5) were all small-scale, unmanned models that couldn't get off the ground. Some of them could fly however when launched by hand.

The sixth and final prototype (AS-6) was full-sized and manned. Out of four flight tests, only the final test was successful, and even then only barely so:

"On the fourth and final test, the jump was longer, and the AS-6 became airborne, but an immediate bank to the left due to the torque of the engine became evident."

This page goes into more detail about the final manned prototype and its attempts at flight:

http://www.luft46.com/misc/sackas6.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 09 Jul 2018 00:04:27 No.1211106 Report

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>>1210560
Saw a few of these back in the day
ahyep

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Jul 2018 07:29:52 No.1213830 Report

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>>1211106
I can say that i've seen a few of these meself
Was near Bermuda triangle @ the time
Just saying

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Anonymous Sun 15 Jul 2018 11:43:13 No.1213877 Report

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Die Glocke seems to be just a remnant of cooling tower.

OTOH Schauberger engines seem to have something to them.
Even weirder that any drawings are scrubbed off internet and only pinterest cached ghosts remain.

What always bothers me is how the earths magnetic field is strong enough to deflect particles and research facilities need gigawatts that levitate frogs with "equivalent of earths field", but you need perfectly suspended, lightweight dial for compass and strong magnets wouldn't budge in this earths super-field.
So maybe there is a way to leverage this field - does it need large area or equivalent area created by tuned system to work with?

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Anonymous Fri 20 Jul 2018 02:50:47 No.1215660 Report

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>>1210560

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Anonymous Sat 21 Jul 2018 01:35:23 No.1216138 Report

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>>1210560
>What are your thoughts on flying saucers?
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Anonymous Sat 21 Jul 2018 06:54:03 No.1216198 Report

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>>1215660
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