nazi info real or fiction?

[AdMan]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Splitter, are you not aware that Churchill lost the general election in July 1945? What he would have liked to have done at that point is of little consequence.

Adman, from what I can find (not a lot), the Sack AS-6 was a 'An extremely unconventional 1944 design with a saucer-shaped wing and a tractor propeller' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_..._World_War_Two. The Vought XF5U was an unusual design, but hardly a 'flying saucer' in the sense that the phrase is usually used. It was a propeller-driven aircraft, taking off and flying in the normal manner. The concept dates back to the late 1930s (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n13498090/), and was first tried in the US. It therefore has little significance to 'Nazi flying saucers' either.

This then leaves the Avrocar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
Effectively an early, very inefficient, hovercraft.

It appears then that all this supposed 'research' resulted in nothing resembling a 'flying saucer' except the Avrocar, which could hardly fly at all.

well I think that's because the word "flying saucer" in modern culture conjures up ideas of anti-gravity, kind of like "UFO" conjures up ideas of alien craft, but that's simply not the definition of the phrase. A craft with a single circular shaped wing is a "flying saucer". I dont think anybody is claiming these craft were using an advanced technology (at least not any more advanced than a turbine engine) or that they were flyable. I think the question is was there an attempt to build such aircraft.

[winny]

It's German, Its saucer shaped and it flew...

A.S 6V-1



It was however 1944..

[rakinroll]

Originally Posted by winny

It's German, Its saucer shaped and it flew...

A.S 6V-1



It was however 1944..

Dung beetle!

[AndyJWest]

A craft with a single circular shaped wing is a "flying saucer".

I'd say that a 'flying saucer' had to be substantially circular in it's entirity, not just in it's wing, to meet the normal expectation of what was meant - this is why I say the Sack AS-6, and the Vought Flapjack weren't true 'flying saucers'. The Avrocar would have been, if it had ever flown properly. I've seen no evidence that anything else that shape was ever flown sucessfully.

'Flying saucers' are usually depicted as having a VTOL capability too, though I suppose this isn't strictly necessary.