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U.S. NAVY TO TEST FLYING SAUCER
First Boeing approaches a Russian scientist regarding his antigravity experiments; now the US Navy wants to test a Russian flying saucer. What's next? ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 9, Number 52a – December 22, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. NAVY TO TEST FLYING SAUCER... It may sound like something from Mars, but this pilotless flying saucer is actually Russian and it has caught the eye of the U.S. Navy. The pita-shaped Ekip drone could be flitting around the Navy's Patuxent River test facility by 2007 thanks to a congressman who saw a prototype on a tour of Russian aviation facilities last year. Developed by Saratov Aviation, the craft takes off and lands on a cushion of air, like a hovercraft, and needs less than 500 feet of runway. The wheel-less drone would be propelled by "high-economy bypass turbojet engines" and use "auxiliary high-economy dual generator turboshaft engines ... for operation of air-cushion landing gear and boundary layer control." The shape lends itself to lower structural weight and loading while offering higher load-carrying capability. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Penn.) was sufficiently impressed that he passed the information along to the military, and the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has agreed to help develop the flying prototype and test it at Pax River. http://www.ekip-aviation-concern.com/ |
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