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MORE DESIGNS
There are lots of VTOL disc designs. Here are just some.
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Lockheed Aircraft, Nathan C. Price
High velocity high altitude VTOL aircraft (1963)
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Alexander G. Weygers (1901 - 1989)
The Discopter (1945)
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"About the same time that he lived in Berkley Alex invented an unusual flying craft. That invention was what he called the "discopter", a vertical liftoff aircraft that looked very much like what was to be later termed "flying saucer". He made numerous detailed drawings of the aircraft and other drawings of an American city with many "discopter" ports that looked very futuristic. He sent these detailed plans to all the branches of the U.S.. Military and was eventually told that they were intrigued by the concept and the design of the craft but were not prepared at that time because the war effort superseded its development. However he did indeed patent the design for the "discopter" in 1943 with the U.S. Patent Office and it served as the prototype for other similar aircraft that have been developed up to the present day."
Links:
Alexander Weygers website: Alex Weygers Renaissance Man
Three prints of his Discopter drawings are for sale: www.discopter.net
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THE VENUS PROJECT
The redesign of a culture
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MISSION STATEMENT: To enhance the lives of all people through the human use of science and technology.
Source: The Venus Project
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Dick Stasinos designed this saucer, in 1950. He was an engineering graduate of the Northrop Aeronautical Institute. Stasinos’s disc had a revolving outer shell and held eight turbo-jet ports. The center of the disc stayed stationary, along with the cockpit for the pilot. Two main jets provided the push and the eight jets provided the spin.
The disc is NOT in storage at the Ripley’s "Believe It or Not" museum in New York City. The source wrote so, but Edward Meyer (VP Exhibits & Archives Ripley Entertainment Inc) wrote me he can't find anything in their archives to suggest that Ripley was ever connected to this flying saucer/inventor. The original Stasinos photos would be archived at the Project SIGN Research Center (is that true?).
Source: Destination: Space UFO Template
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C. P. Lent
Saucer-Shaped Aircraft (1957)
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Donald S. Johnson
Radial Flow Lift Device, US patent 2,978,206 (1961)
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John C. Fischer JR
Circular aircraft and control system therefor. Patent 2,772,057 (1959)
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Ralph Ring and Otis Carr
A new propulsion system? (late 1950s and early 1960s)
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Searle Disc
J.R.R. Searl (1950s)
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