disc-shaped aircraft

Originally posted by jkw
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RLV SSTO
LRV Specifications
Crew 4
Weapons 4 nuclear missiles
Mission Length 6 weeks
Dimensions
Diameter 40 ft.
Center 90 in.
Edges 6 in.
Wing 1548 sq. ft.
Weights
Launch 45,000 lb.
Landing 33,395 lb.
Empty 17,042 lb.
Engines
Booster nuclear thermal rockets NTR
NTR Engine 4/6
Main Hypergolic/Nuclear
Capsule Solid fuel
Electric Power 7 kw (thermal nuclear)
Designer North American Aviation

http://me.eng.sunysb.edu/~mec290/nerva/

http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/at12.html

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Chinese Military Aviation
(The secret truth behind U.S. built flying wing disc aircraft)

All Rights Reserved

By Michael H. Schratt & Jack – February 2003

Illustrations by Michael H. Schratt, Chuck Biddlecom

and

Gino Marcomini

-Page 1-
http://www.usafflyingsaucers.com/real.html

Otis T. Carr: “Utron”
http://www.rexresearch.com/carr/1carr.htm#model

Sukhanov’s Discoplans
http://www.ufx.org/soviet/sukhanov.htm

The IFO Picture Library is a collection of “real flying sauser” photos and drawings, without much technical data or long ghost stories, just so you can see what has been made and designed so far. There are many IFOs designed, but naturally only a few crafts were build and few of them flew.
http://www.laesieworks.com/ifo/lib/index.html

Originally posted by Airbedane
The Nemeth Umbrella Plane had a circular wing and flew in the USA in the 1930’s. A three-view and picture were published by Bill Hannan in his booklet – Plans and 3-Views Vol 1. I built a profile test model for CO2 which flew beautifully, but a second attempt at a more scale structure didn’t get of the ground – or at least, it kept spiralling in……

I saw a 5 or so second clip of the original in the air in a 1930’s movie some years ago. I think it was called ‘The History of Flight’. Did anyone else have the pleasure? yes

Airbedane.

Vought V-173 / XF5U-1
“Flying Flapjack” or “Flying Pancake
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/aircraft/flapjack.htm

The Nemeth Umbrella Plane had a circular wing and flew in the USA in the 1930’s. A three-view and picture were published by Bill Hannan in his booklet – Plans and 3-Views Vol 1. I built a profile test model for CO2 which flew beautifully, but a second attempt at a more scale structure didn’t get of the ground – or at least, it kept spiralling in……

I saw a 5 or so second clip of the original in the air in a 1930’s movie some years ago. I think it was called ‘The History of Flight’. Did anyone else have the pleasure?

Airbedane.

Project Y
http://www.ufx.org/avro/genesis/y/projectY.htm

Project Ladybird
http://www.ufx.org/avro/ladybird/ladybird.htm

PV. 704
http://www.ufx.org/avro/pv704/pv704.htm

Weapon System 606A
In January 1959, Avro’s Special Projects Group issued a report on the engineering specifics of the Mach 3, VTOL fighter-bomber version of the WS-606A design.
This iteration was roughly the size and weight of a modern Harrier. Its wing was about 29 feet in diameter, and overall fuselage length was 37 feet. Takeoff weight with 7,500 pounds of fuel was 20,000 pounds, and a 1,000 pound weapon load (described in one document as a Mk 28 tactical laydown nuclear bomb, which had a selectable yield of 350 kt to 1.3 Mt) could be carried to a target 600 miles from base at a speed of Mach 2.5. Propulsion was provided by a dual-mode engine which combined a radial-flow turbine, for takeoff and hover, with six Marquardt ramjets for supersonic cruise.
Vertical takeoff and landing was achieved by diverting the thrust of the radial impeller downward through a series of slots around the rim of the disc, forming a “curtain wall” effect. Multiple spoilers in the slots could vary the size of the orifices and divert the airflow in any desired direction. Forward flight was to be achieved by diverting the flow aft and accelerating to speeds where the ramjet engines would sustain combustion. In horizontal flight the fan flow was used for attitude control as well as thrust, and supersonic speed was to be achieved using ramjet power, but at the cost of high fuel consumption
http://www.ufx.org/avro/ws606/ws606.htm
http://www.ufx.org/avro/ws606/tr276.1.htm

Originally posted by JDK
Real ones;
There is a circular aircraft that was built and flew in Australia – it used to be in the Wangaratta museum, called the Ringwing’. It only ever flew as a towed glider, and once the civil aviation authorities caught up with the maker it was frounded pronto. Given the Aussie humour it was always known as the ‘Flying Dunny Seat’.

The Canadians also flew a proper disc – the ‘Avro ‘Avrocar’ IIRC but it never really suceeded.

Not to menttion the Kitchen pre- W.W.I iems, and the Vought ‘Flapjacks’

Quite a theme…

THE VZ-9 “AVROCAR””
By Bernard Lindenbaum and William Blake
http://www.vtol.org/pdf/Vertiflite-VZ9.pdf
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/mufonontario/avro/avrocar.html
http://www.aviation-history.com/garber/vg-bldg/avro_VZ9V-1_f.html

Originally posted by Nermal
Maybe Kenneth Williams saw this too? – Nermal

“Flapjacks”
http://www.ufx.org/flapjack/boeing390.htm

Real ones;
There is a circular aircraft that was built and flew in Australia – it used to be in the Wangaratta museum, called the Ringwing’. It only ever flew as a towed glider, and once the civil aviation authorities caught up with the maker it was frounded pronto. Given the Aussie humour it was always known as the ‘Flying Dunny Seat’.

The Canadians also flew a proper disc – the ‘Avro ‘Avrocar’ IIRC but it never really suceeded.

Not to menttion the Kitchen pre- W.W.I iems, and the Vought ‘Flapjacks’

Quite a theme…

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/sbf1.htm

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/sbf2.htm

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/sbf3.htm

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/sbf4.htm

Maybe Kenneth Williams saw this too? – Nermal