Experimentation with disc- or saucer-shaped aircraft goes back to the early days of flight. One of the first experiments was the Lee-Richards Annular Biplane and Monoplane, a circular design that ...

Authorities, public flummoxed: Who would build a Mylar flying saucer and why? Oct. 15, 2009 — -- Just what was that thing? For a while, nobody watching could tell. Authorities in Larimer ...

Everyone is familiar with the concept of the flying saucer, but the iconic shape still hasn’t spawned a real, working aircraft.; That hasn’t stopped many aircraft designers from trying to get ...

They might still claim that saucer-shaped aircraft built on earth are proof that extraterrestrial flying saucers, manned by little men from Venus (or Mars), have been infesting the atmosphere.

Video of a large flying saucer-shaped UFO recorded by a military sensor over a conflict zone has now been released to the ...

Dec. 1—The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has had a Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar in its massive collection since late 2007. But this flying saucer-shaped vehicle is most certainly not a ...

This flying saucer is not that kind of flying saucer. It's a A.V. Roe (Avro) Aircraft Limited craft, an early effort at supersonic, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter-bomber in the early ...

Did America really build a flying saucer? During World War II, the U.S. developed the Vought XF5-U, a bizarre, disc-shaped aircraft meant to change aerial combat. But why didn’t it take off?

The flying saucer, on the other hand, has no moving parts. In theory, the WEAV would be more stable than an aircraft—airplanes and helicopters, for example—that rely on aerodynamics to provide ...

Zeva Aero pivots from its flying saucer to an airplane with a vertical-takeoff twist by Alan Boyle on March 22, 2023 at 8:20 am March 22, 2023 at 8:21 am Share 62 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

See how the United States tried to build an operational flying saucer that ... and take off at high speeds. The VZ-9AV, with its unique saucer shape, was ... the aircraft could potentially ...