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"Pete" writes:

"Ed Majden" wrote in message
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"B2431"
The U.S. built and flew a few disc aircraft during WW2. The Chance
Vought
V-173
first flew 23 November 1942, which had excellent STOL capabilities and
was
apparently impossible to stall.

AVRO Canada experimented with a flying saucer type design in the 1950s.
This was funded in part by the USAF. It was known as the Avrocar. It was
abandoned as I guess technology had not been developed (i.e. computer
flight
control systems etc) for controlling successful flight. Do a search with
'google' for "AVRO Flying Saucer" if you want to read more about this
project.
Ed Majden

One of those is on display at the Ft. Eustis, Virginia, Transportation
Museum.
http://www.avroarrow.org/Avrocar/Avrocar3.html
http://www.davidpride.com/Army/us_ft_eustis_04.htm

That's also the furthest that thing's ever been from the surface.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster