UFO - the creation of man?
Just a few months ago, the United States declassified some documents that reveal some very interesting developments and their characteristics. This is a prototype of flying saucers.
So, in September of this year, the US National Archives published an excerpt from the memorandum, which appeared in June 1956. According to this document, the Americans were engaged in the development of a prototype of flying saucers, which were planned to be used in the interests of the American armed forces. The project was called the “Project 1794”, and the unit under development was supposed to have a supersonic speed and without any problems to overcome the distance in 2 thousands of kilometers.
Strangely enough, but the development of this device involved foreigners, in particular, the Canadian aircraft manufacturer Avro Aircraft, led by a leading engineer, Briton John Frost. It should be noted that by the beginning of development this company has already managed to establish itself from the positive side, having created the CF-100 fighter. Frost himself appeared in the company in 1947 year, before that he worked in the UK, in the company De Havilland, engaged in the development of fighters Vampire and Hornet, as well as an experimental aircraft DH 108.
After joining a Canadian company, Frost proceeded to modernize the jet engine and increase the efficiency of the compressor. The result of his work was the so-called "pancake-like engine", the essence of which was that the turbine set in motion a compressor through a gear train, and the jet flow was evenly distributed around the entire circumference of the engine.
It should also be noted that at that time the “cold war” began in the world, therefore both the Americans and representatives of other states were extremely interested in an aircraft that took off and landed vertically, therefore Frost's invention was just in place.
The first prototype of the flying saucer Frost was named Project Y, and apparently the device looked very much like a bayonet of a shovel. The project was supported by the Canadian military, and 400 thousands of Canadian dollars were allocated for its implementation. In 1953, the developers presented a wooden model of the device. Information about this in the blink of an eye scattered in the press. Sometimes there were rumors that Canadians intend to create a flying saucer. However, the project was later frozen due to lack of cash funding.
Meanwhile, American forces began to show increasing interest in Frost’s designs. Their attention was offered the second version of the aircraft - Project Y-2. It was made in the form of a disk, was equipped with a round engine with a rotor and compressors. In this case, the jet streams were distributed around the circumference of the hull, which, as expected, should provide greater altitude and speed of flight.
According to information from open sources, Frost received his first contract for the creation of devices of this kind back in 1955. A year later, even more 2,5 million dollars were invested by Avro into the design of the flying saucer. But at the same time, there were also classified documents, according to which the US military estimated the project at more than 3 million dollars (which, according to current estimates, is more than 26,5 million dollars). A year was allotted for development. At the same time, the American side really hoped that the device would be able to reach speeds of up to 3-4 thousands of kilometers per hour, fly over distances of almost thousands of kilometers to 2 and climb 30 kilometers up.
The choice of the US military was offered several variants of the devices. One of them was even captured on video during a test flight. The device quite confidently broke away from the surface, but when trying to carry out a horizontal flight, it began to chat from side to side. Despite the fact that certain adjustments were made to the 1794 Project (namely, it was being tested), Frost could not convince the Americans of the need for further funding. The problem, according to his calculations, was completely solvable, it was just necessary to use a less radical design. This was mentioned by Sukhanov, the author of the discolpane development. However, officially the flying saucer project was closed in 1961 year. Officially, the reason for the discontinuation of research was the inability of the apparatus to rise above the height of a person. However, at present it is very difficult to imagine what made the Americans take such a step, and after several years of very successful trials close the project. After all, it was not about a new type of aircraft, but about a fundamentally new aircraft, the creation of which required much more time than the allotted few years.
Leaving the not-so-successful enterprise, the US military took up no less promising and interesting programs, in particular, OXCART, which resulted in the appearance of the A-12 aircraft, a secret military model aviation, which was developed in the interests of the CIA.
Interestingly, in the middle of the 50 of the last century, the idea of creating a flying saucer was far from new. Over their creation worked in the Third Reich in the 30-ies. So, in particular, in 1939, Heinrich Foke, aircraft designer Focke-Wulf, patented the design of the device, which was saucer-shaped and had a vertical take-off. Besides him, Arthur Zak was engaged in similar developments, who decided to create a “flying disc”, which was called AS-6, but his apparatus failed all tests. In addition to them, there were other developers. So, for example, in the 1950-ies in the media there was information about the successful developments of flying saucers carried out by the Nazis - "The Flying Zimmerman Pancake" and "Disk Belonts". German designer Zimmerman developed a disc-shaped aircraft in 1942-1943. It was equipped with a gas turbine engine and reached speeds up to 700 kilometers per hour. Externally, the device is very reminiscent of flying saucers, the classic descriptions of which were obtained from “eyewitnesses”: you can see it in the press, namely the shape of an inverted pelvis, a transparent cabin, rubber chassis. As for the Belontsa disk, there is no documentary evidence of its existence. However, some argue that all documentation on this development was destroyed almost at the moment when Soviet soldiers captured the place of research.
If we talk about the “Coanda effect” that Jack Frost used, it was later used by Americans in the experienced Boeing YC-14 and QSRA aircraft, a multi-purpose light helicopter MD-520 NOTAR, as well as on the Soviet military transport aircraft An-74 and An-72 .
As for the present, this “effect” is used in unmanned aerial vehicles with vertical takeoff and landing. By and large, the principle of their work is very similar to what Frost offered, with the exception of the jet engine.
At the moment there is no information regarding the intentions of either the United States of America, or any other state to engage in the development of flying saucers. But if we take into account the pace of technology development, it is quite possible to make an assumption that in the near future small-sized flying saucers will occupy a certain niche in the weapons system of a number of states in the world.
One of the first swallows in the industry was the development of scientists at the University of Florida who applied for a flying saucer patent, an apparatus that was officially called the "wingless electromagnetic aircraft." The author of the invention is Subrata Roy, who is the director of the plasma dynamics modeling laboratory. If we talk about his invention, then this unit is far from a real plate, because its diameter is only a dozen decimeters. This device will move with the help of plasma, which may be of interest to the aerospace industry, which has long been interested in the plasma layer, which, covering the surface of the device, improves its aerodynamic properties. In addition, the military consider this phenomenon as the possibility of hiding aircraft from radar. At the same time and in this invention has its drawbacks. If Dr. Roy’s plate ever rises into the air, it is assumed that control will be carried out by radio. But it is known that plasma is a poor conductor of radio waves. How such problems will be solved is unknown. But this is not so important, because these are promising developments that will undoubtedly be developed and improved.
Now, according to some experts, in particular, Pavel Poluyan, the author of the book “The Hunt for UFOs. Whirlwinds in time ”, real big flying saucers have existed for more than half a century, and these are not at all fantastic technologies, but quite earthly developments, which are carried out in America, China and Iran. But their existence is held in great secrecy, because “bringing them out into the light” can adversely affect many aspects of modern life, from state security to the global economy.
Materials used:
http://science.compulenta.ru/712783/
http://lenta.ru/articles/2012/10/09/ufo/
http://www.kp.ru/daily/25969.3/2906144/
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