Yes, they are all very closely related to rubbish.

Why do people persist in believing this nonsense?

:rolleyes:

I thought it was well documented, granted I haven't spent a lot of time caring enough about it to find out but I dont see why it's so hard to believe.

Is there a reason you are so angered by it?

If there was such a test craft (or even if there wasn't) I dont see the harm of having something like it as an easter egg or something, this is a thread about random, unlikely/unbelievable things afterall. No need to get your panties in a bunch about it

You don't find it hard to believe that with 1940's technology and materials that the Germans designed and built a flying saucer?

Are you spectacularly ignorant of history, or maybe just 14 years old?

Do you also believe that the Me 262 broke the sound barrier and the Elvis is not dead?

I really worry about the future.

Truly.

do I believe they built a turbine-based engined and put it in a saucer shaped experimental craft that barely flew and most test pilots barely escaped with their lives as most accounts describe? Very Likely

Was the RFZ2 functional enough to fly a few recon missions? Less likely but plausible

Do you believe a nation of people were convinced through propaganda to follow a man into a insane crusade to try to exterminate a race in a belief that he would create a master race of God-men?

Um, where are these 'accounts'? Have any of them been shown to be authentic?

Frankly, the idea that German jet turbine technology of the time could have provided the power-to-weight ratios necessary for a VTOL saucer seems highly doubtful, and I know of no other technology that would have got the 'saucers' airborne, if they were anything like the supposed descriptions. Of course, they were working on helicopters (very sucessfully), and maybe the 'turbines' were just rotors, described by someone without the technical knowledge to distinguish between the two.

I'm sorry AdMan, but there is no way I can take you seriously.

BTW, I have this very old, and very large bridge in Brooklyn that I could let you have, cheap.

We're talking about a videogame, so maybe you should stop taking yourself so seriously. Whether myth of fact it's just a fun, simple suggestion along the same lines that the Lerche appears in IL-2

not sure what tiny box you keep your mind in where in an age of great flight innovation and all the wacky designs that came before it just to achieve flight and all the technological innovations that the Germans developed that an experimental aircraft in the shape of a disc (successful or not) is such an impossibility

I think your problem is that your attributing all the other theories that people may have about "vril" to me and attacking me for it. It was a suggestion, for a VIDEOGAME

Fixed that for you. Remember that a lot of people despise the fact that the Lerche was included in Il-2 to begin with when there were so many more interesting and useful 1946 aircraft that could have been included.

it's a videogame, dont kid yourself

Really? Does it cater to the same audience? Most people who play Il-2 don't tend to appreciate big mistakes in historical accuracy if they can be avoided.