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ut the Navy Says 'No' e Orig·inal 'Flying Saucer'?
Sazicers' Neiv0 Type Air.craft, :_
/ .:,:~:"~~:. ~:~{~~~~gazine S-~~, ,
radically new type aircraft, cOl'. ltμrnw~ ?ff the rear Jets, turnmg
forming to known areodynamic, on_,the side and front nozzles.
I Great speed can be obtained
laws and probably developed byIby focusing to the rear all 1
tile• United States Navy, the maga- ' in the after half of the afr~~~ft
zine United States and World Re- ' With all nozzles pointed down
port said yesterday. jward, the saucer co u Id rise
This latest effo1·t to explain the straight off the ground, and with
continuing reports of strange 'fly- less power, could descend the
ing disks at various points over same way • , • ]
the counh'y brought a prompt "Jet helicopter action • • •
denial from the Navy Department makes takeoffs and landings almost
that it is now "conducting research completely safe."
or flying" any such plane or I The magazine said that an early
missile. !, model of the saucer was built by
A spokesman pointed out that, National Advisory Committee for
the Navy did , develop the "pan- Aeronautics experts in 1942 and
cake-shaped" Chance-Vought made 100 successful flights, The
XF5U-l. but that it never flew and Navy then took over development
was scrapped more than a year and "much more advanced models
ago. A small, 3000-pound scale now are being built." •
model oL the plane was flown and., NACA Engineer Charles :a". Zim
pictures of it have been released.' me~man designed the first model,
but this model is now at Norfolk which had a speed of from 400 to
awaiting s hipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- I
Air Museum here. ~ i ered l'>y two piston propellers, said , ,
'fhe weekly news magazine did the a1ticle. •
not quote any authority for its :•surface indications," the mag.
statement that the "flying saucers" azme went on, "point to research
arelreal American planes, but sai ' centers _of the ~n_ited St'.'tes Navy's
tha •·engineers competant to a . vast gwded-miss1le proJect as the
. scene of present flying-saucer de•
pra· e reports of rel_iable obs:rv velopment." The project, it was
l y A>SOC!ated P reS3 Pho
reac these conclus10ns: s~id, has the ''scientists, the en-
''Tl1 e are aircraft of a revolu- glneers, the dollars, the motive Model ol o.ircraFt derJaloped in 1948 and Rou>n by the Navy uncl
lradio cantrol-full-aire cralt neuer Rew, the Navy ho.• announced. 1 yt e a combination of heli- and the background'' for the • •
uonary YP • . "This likelihood will remain de•
copter and fa5t Jct pl~ne: They , spite any futur e denials by' the
, fo ·m to well-known pr1nciples of1 Navy front office, until secrecy is
co I . " I'ft d ,, th • dd·odynan11cs- 1 e , e magazine a ed. I ., (._)_fJ t1'l.L_ae!,_ Y ai·e "exact.I~• L05 feet in di- The Navy declared it w~s true ~ o ·l" R ~'., ,.-u,J<\Q.,_1tr circular in s hape·• and "are that its abandoned "flying pan
an1 e e ·f a metal alloy. with a dull cake" was designed by Zlmmer & APR 111950ma~l~ ~ color. There are no r~d- man, and was called t he " Zimmer
w l11t 15 uerons or other proh'udmg man Skimmer." It added that a
ders, a From the side, the caucersf'l smaller scale model---one
s urfacesto be about 10 feet thick." t ~rd of actual size-is still at
appear aucer appears to have a , _
"Each 5 cJ' t· • t. of vari~ble•. irec ion Je ACA's Langley, Va., laborato
serles around its riu,s . • • : iuel for wind-tunnel tests, but he
nozzle_5 unknown. •,- · Direc~wn ?f NavY insisted it had no such pr.oj
used 1~ . ft and ils velocity, m ect now active.
the a1rc~a tlY are controlled by • , •
t,urn, evlden ,,·hich the jet nozzles The Air. For~e, . after many
angle at mber operating. month~, of mvest1gation of "flying
t1,e tilted, the . 11J ~aucer reports, concluded that all
f;~: power appJ1e ,~·hich nozzles toIthe evid_encc pointe? to "misin-
"lW choo~1ng and the angle ol t.~rpretah_on of ~ar1ous convan-
01· off lei nrnk I t 10111tl obJects, a mild form of mass
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;~; the, pilO~ cl~~~cnd v~i-t ca y, terlo, or hoaxes.'' , s • 'Al l
1!~a er l'lb~c;t~~idh\ ahead or make
110 er. flY • ~ 1,1ght-anllle turn. ,, WASHINGTON posT
sllarP turns, ~011Jd he m11de b) 6 A,,...1') 11"1n5n Dat ed 4-4- 50for example, 1 J y
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