Flying Sorcery Inspirational Images

[Mossie]

Greg, Scott's kitting the larger version you posted earlier through Fantastic Plastic.  The masters seem to be well on their way to completion.
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/LRVCatalogPage.htm

Fantastic Plastic also does the USAF 40 Foot Flying Disc as well, master by Anigrand.
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/USAFFlyingDisc-CataloguePage.htm

[Jeffry Fontaine]

More fuel for the WHIF fires found at the Computer UFO Network on the WWW (http://www.cufon.org/). 

Two links available for the Joint ATIC-WADC Report on Project "Silverbug" (Technical Report TR-AC-47, Project No. 9961, 15 February 1955).  There are some interesting drawings of what appear to be man-made saucer shaped flying vehicles that may have been built and flown.

Link to the Adobe pdf file: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/Silverbug.pdf
Web page link: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/silverbg.htm

[Mossie]

Some more fodder:

Jet Pancake:


Sack AS-7/Me-400 as mentioned above.  Somebody put together a flying model with X-Plane & tweaked it till it flew well.  I might just do this one!


Sack AS-8, the guy that put the AS-7 together found torque was a problem at low speed so produced a push-pull variant, his own idea.  I guess another way to cancel the torque would be to use a contra-prop.


I'll PM Comrade Anatoly about this GB, as it seems to remain popular but keeps getting beat in the polls by the flavour of the moment.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Steve Payne created an interesting flying sub/spacecraft from the Testor's Roswell UFO and the F-19 Stealth Fighter kits.  Have a look at the build at this link: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/t/steveplj2/modeltech/ff/thebuild.htm

For further entertainment, check out http://www.stopabductions.com/ it has complete instructions on how to build your "Thought Protection Helmet" to keep prying alien mind probes at bay. 

[Mossie]

Thought protection helmets, fantastic, I'm never sure if these guys or serious or taking the p!ss!!!

[jcf]

Thought protection helmets, fantastic, I'm never sure if these guys or serious or taking the p!ss!!!

Menkin is deadly serious and used to work for Matsushita/Panasonic Avionics as well as Boeing. Some of the folks I worked with at Panasonic had worked directly with him and related that he used to preach his anti-abduction gospel at work. 

Jon

[Chris707]

A few ideas...

<img src="http://www.google.com/patents?id=dDB1AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1967&img=1&zoom=4&hl=en&sig=SgsTQO-7Ga6jlwVGAw1TfEBVKYI&ci=177,963,568,315&edge=1" border="0" alt="Text not available"/>
ROTARY AND CIRCULAR SAUCER-SHAPED AIRFOIL AIRCRAFT  T. ROWAN

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CIRCULAR WING AIRCRAFT WITH UNIVERSALLY TILTABLE DUCTED POWER PLANT  Homer F. Streib

<img src="http://www.google.com/patents?id=BKtgAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1&img=1&zoom=4&hl=en&sig=YbgmcpZ_quuq20M4F1T8Wh6WEd0&ci=283,634,468,293&edge=1" border="0" alt="Text not available"/>
VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT  Boyd et al.

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DISC AIRCRAFT WITH MULTIPLE RADIALLY DISPOSED GAS TURBINE ENGINES  Frost et al.

<img src="http://www.google.com/patents?id=zVpeAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1958&img=1&zoom=4&hl=en&sig=InzX-BMJ_Vb_WacBT8xZx0Xv-s8&ci=213,253,471,153&edge=1" border="0" alt="Text not available"/>
DISC SHAPED AIRCRAFT  L. W. GRAYSON

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Induction lift flying saucer  Kyusik Kim

Chris
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Old Aviation Plans & Ads: http://paperofthepast.ecrater.com

[Mossie]

I posted this pic in the inspiration thread some time ago.  I found it on a website related to that book, where it was named as a BAe Antigravity Aircraft.  I presume this is something to do with the Greenglow project, of which I wan't aware of until now.  I originally thought that the 'antigravity' application of the aircraft was a fantasy & that the vent was more likely to be for a more conventional lift engine.  Seems I was wrong.



If you wanted to build it, you could start with a X-32 forward fuse & scratch the body.  Anybody got any more information on Project Greenglow?

[Mossie]

Here's a link to a page with several disc planes from prior to 1943, most of them were built:

http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/World%20Disc%20Development.htm

[Mossie]

Facetmobile, a home built GA aircraft.

http://members.aol.com/slicklynne/facet.htm

[jcf]

Facetmobile, a home built GA aircraft.

http://members.aol.com/slicklynne/facet.htm

A free paper model from Ralph Currell, I built this one few years back and had it until it was accidentally crushed.

http://www.currell.net/models/facet.htm

Jon

[r16]

me too , me too but they will be have to be familiar

and a more serious version if I may call it so

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[r16]

a much loved childhood memory while this is a from TV show that still befuddles me

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[r16]

and one more

"Ford Motor Co.'s Levacar Mach I appeared in the Ford Rotunda in spring 1959. A full-sized prototype, this was an one-man "flying car" that was "levitated" several inches off the ground by three powerful air jets located on the bottom of its chassis. Planned to be powered by a small-scale turbojet engine, the Levacar was purportedly designed to reach a top speed of nearly 500 mph!"

pictures and text from Fantastic Plastic

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[BlackOps]

Made out of simple plastic party plates.