The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft. In the air, it would have resembled a flying saucer. Originally designed as a fighter-like aircraft capable of very high speeds and altitudes, the project was repeatedly scaled back over time and the U.S. Air Force eventually abandoned it. Development was then taken up by the U.S. Army for a tactical combat aircraft requirement, a sort of high-performance helicopter. In flight testing, the Avrocar proved to have unresolved thrust and stability problems that limited it to a degraded, low-performance flight envelope; subsequently, the project was cancelled in September 1961. Through the history of the program, the project was referred to by a number of different names. Avro referred to the efforts as Project Y, with individual vehicles known as Spade and Omega. Project Y-2 was later funded by the U.S. Air Force, who referred to it as WS-606A, Project 1794 and Project Silver Bug. When the U.S. Army joined the efforts it took on its final name "Avrocar", and the designation "VZ-9", part of the U.S. Army's VTOL projects in the VZ series. (Wikipedia).
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The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Ai
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Air News - Flying Saucer Plane Aka Sport Plane (1953)
A homemade flying saucer designed to be a sports plane. In Ontario, Canada such a flying object was build. See footage from it here. Ontario, Canada. GV designers at Ontario airfield, & SV. SV designers inspecting new jet engine, & SCU. SV designers pass through restricted area door.
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Hitler's Flying Saucers - Fact or Fantasy?
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XB-70 Valkyrie - The Worlds Fastest Bomber
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𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝘇𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 aircraft ? Post your number 1 crazy looking aircraft below. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 There are many crazy looking aircraft ranging from flying saucers to planes that take off vertically. Many of these once state-of-the-art oddities were built without the h
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