The Avrocar Military Flying Saucer

If only this project had succeeded, we'd all have Jetson-style flying saucers today!

Here is the Wikipedia page.

But I do think the version patented by one C. P. Lent right around the same time has a classier shape.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 25, 2024
Category: Flight | Military | Technology | Patents | 1950s

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I've seen films of this. Like communism, the idea was good enough, but it just didn't work in the real world.

Posted by Richard Bos on 01/28/24 at 08:53 AM

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