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	Strange Vehicles: Avrocar
		The Avro Canada VZ-9V Avrocar was a flying saucer in the true sense of the word.
		The Avrocar was first proposed in the early 1950's by the Avro company to the Canadian government.
		But it proved to be unstable at heights over about 8 feet and although it appeared in a few different forms the plug was finally pulled in 1961.
	www.diseno-art.com /encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/avrocar.html (139 words)

	Avro Avrocar Flying Saucer Paper model from Fiddlers Green
		The Avrocar was built as a research vehicle with a pilot and observer in separate cockpits on either side, facing front.
		The total diameter of the Avrocar was 6.2 m., with wheels and later tricycle landing pads for an undercarriage.
		Two Avrocar prototypes were constructed and completed a series of wind tunnel tests and a flying program both at NASA Ames in California and at the Malton home of Avro Canada.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Avro-Avrocar/info/info.htm (1185 words)

	Avro-Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar
		They asked for a VTOL aircraft that could hover near the ground, beneath the coverage of enemy radar, and then rocket into the stratosphere at supersonic speeds.
		Frost and his design team powered the aircraft with three gas-turbine engines and the combined exhaust from these power plants drove a "turborotor" mounted in the center of the vehicle.
		A scale model of the aircraft was sent to Wright Field outside Dayton, Ohio, for testing.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/avro.htm (1301 words)

	Coandă effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principle was named after Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, who was the first to understand the practical importance of the phenomenon for aircraft development.
		He made the discovery during experiments with his Coandă-1910 aircraft, which is the first aircraft based on an early type of jet engine.
		It has important applications in various high-lift devices on aircraft, where air moving over the wing can be "bent down" towards the ground using flaps and a jet blowing over a curved surface.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Coanda_Effect (656 words)

	The Flying Platforms & Jeeps
		The aircraft was guided by differential pitch between the propellers, and a rudder in the turbine exhaust.
		The Avrocar was the brainchild of John Frost, an aeronautical engineer at the Malton-Toronto plant of Avro Canada, who conducted studies in the early 1950s on extremely unorthodox vertical-take-off aircraft, beginning with one design that looked like a shovel blade named the "Avro Ace" or "Project Y-1".
		The Avrocar was powered by three Continental J69 jet engines, which were arranged in the fuselage in a triangle around the central fan.
	www.vectorsite.net /avplatfm.html (4881 words)

	The UnMuseum - Disc Shaped Aircraft
		There is some evidence that during WWII the Germans had some interest in disc shaped aircraft, too, though it seems unlikely that any of their designs were ever flight tested.
		Avro Aircraft, a British concern, designed an aircraft that was circular in shape and used a central fan, powered by three turbo-jet engines, to make a vertical takeoff.
		This had been recognized as a problem early on and the aircraft had a complex mechanical system that was supposed to automatically control the undesired movement and keep the craft stable.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /realsauc.htm (1133 words)

	AvroCar's 1950's UFO - American Antigravity
		The AvroCar was a collaborative effort to develop a saucer-shaped vehicle capable of VTOL flight.
		The AvroCar certainly had the power for full-fledged flight -- the test-prototype had two turbine-engines working in tandem to spin a large central fan, and the never-completed larger-scale prototype had a total of six full-size jet engines.
		Was he being evasive, or was he simply indicating that the Avrocar technology was either not powerful enough or stable enough to fly other than as a ground-effects vehicle.
	www.americanantigravity.com /avrocar.shtml (919 words)

	Avrocar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Avrocar (aircraft) was an hovercraft-like aircraft designed by John C Frost and built by Avro Canada in the late 1950s.
		Avrocar (band) are an Electronica band formed in Birmingham, England in the 1990s.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avrocar (103 words)

	Avrocar
		The resulting craft was named Avrocar and given the Army designation VZ-9AV (VZ for vertical takeoff research aircraft, 9 as it was the ninth in a series and AV for Avro).
		The Avrocar was a saucer-shaped disk 18 ft in diameter and 3 ft thick, it was designed to go 300 mph and able to fly to an altitude of 10,000 ft. It weighed 5,650 lb.
		The second Avrocar made its first tethered flight, lasting 12 seconds, on Sep. 29, 1959, and its first untethered flight occurred on Nov. 12, 1959.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/Avrocar.html (514 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Weird Wings - Avro-Car
		In 1953 the Toronto Star reported on the development by Avro Canada of a disc-shaped VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft.
		In February it was officially announced that a mock-up of the craft, designed by British engineer John Frost and developed by the Malton, Ontario plant, had been made - and indeed, photographs exist of technicians smiling from its twin cockpits.
		Avro Canada was, of course, responsible for aircraft from the Avro Arrow jet fighter and a number of orthodox and well known designs, to some a little less conventional.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /wings/avro_car.php (391 words)

	Project Silverbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The O.I.C. permitted Jack to walk under and around this aircraft, and was actually allowed to kick the tires of the smaller 40' craft, while the O.I.C. stood nearby and snapped a photo in the process.
		Jack specifically noted that the port main landing gear was partially collapsed, causing the aircraft to lean to the left.
		AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE: When Jack asked the O.I.C. if these were the Flying Saucers everybody was reporting, he was given an affirmative reply.
	www.voicenet.com /~wbacon/documents/silverbug.html (3384 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / FLYING SAUCERS FROM CANADA!
		The Avrocar was to be a saucer (or, in company terminology, a “circular planform”) five feet high and eighteen feet across.
		The second Avrocar, meanwhile, was finished at Malton and began hovering in tethered flight tests in December 1959, with Spud Potocki, an Avro test pilot, at the stick.
		This proved to be crippling to the Canadian aircraft industry in general, and in combination with the Avrocar cancellation two years later, it was fatal to Avro.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1996/3/1996_3_58.shtml (3406 words)

	Project Silverbug, UFO Projects Provided by Burlington UFO and Research Center, Mary Sutherland Burlington WI
		This aircraft was listed as being capable of over 80,000 feet and Mach 3 and able to hover at up to 18,000 ft. without using afterburners.
		I too am convinced that this "Avrocar" was constructed only for disinformation purposes while Y-2 went "Black" as a means of providing the US Gov't with "plausible deniability" and also the possibility of telling those who saw "flying saucers" that it was only that Avro vehicle.
		The Avrocar project was commenced after this time and used only 4 million or so to completion.
	www.burlingtonnews.net /silverbug.html (789 words)

	AVROCAR! Saucer Secrets from the Past
		The VZ-9AV Avrocar research vehicle used three Continental J-69's1025 lbs, thrust (licence-built Turbomeca Marbor) turbojets, turning a central impeller ("turbo rotor") to keep it airborne with downward thrust, with a vane/shutter system to propel the craft in any direction by venting thrust in the direction the pilot desired.
		In late 1960, Avro had redesigned the VZ-9AV Avrocar with a pair of J-85 turbojets, a larger turborotor of improved performance and a wing/tailet configuration married to the central disc platform.
		Today, the unrestored Avrocars or "flying saucers" as they are referred to at both the NASM and U.S. Army Transportation Museum are mainly neglected and relegated to objects of historical curiosity or oddity.
	www.avrocar.com /avrocarstory.html (969 words)

	UFO home page - UFOs
		While it represents a spectacular leap forward in aircraft technology, it is improbable that it was developed from information obtained from captured alien spacecraft, as some have asserted.
		That it is a remarkable aircraft is beyond dispute, however; it is still an aircraft designed on earth by human beings for operation in Earth's exatomosphere.
		Aircraft lights have been recorded as they cross the field of vision of the telescopes, and other known phenomena have been captured.
	members.tripod.com /gogoufo/ufo.htm (13379 words)

	Home-grown Canadian landspeeders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Commissioned by the U.S. army and built by Avro Aircraft Limited - which also built the infamous jet fighter Avro Arrow - the idea was to build a vehicle that was capable of vertical takeoffs and landings.
		The fan pushed the air into the aircraft body and through vents to the bottom of the aircraft.
		It wanted to create a whole new fleet of aircraft based on the Avrocar, which was to be capable of carrying two personnel and shipments of weapons and supplies.
	exn.ca /starwars/antigravity2.cfm (827 words)

	ufo - UFOS at close sight: Avrocar and Project Silverbug
		Later, in 1960, advertising booklets were prepared by Avro, announcing not only the Avrocar revolution, but also an Avrowagon for the whole family, an Avroangel as flying ambulance, an Avropelican for rescue mssions etc. Avro's intention was to massively distribute these booklets to potential customers, civil and military.
		Their initial interest in 1952 was that they wondered if flying saucers could be human aircraft, and after a failure to find any trace of any human built flying saucer anywhere, the notion that the Avro company may soon have one was created a temptation they understandably could not resist.
		Fifty years alter, we have Harrier and Sukhoi and other VTOL aircraft, and some circular drones with a central propeller are beginning to be flown, undoubtedly mistaken for extraterrestrial aircraft on the occasion, but we still do not have a decent supersonic flying saucer of terrestrial origin.
	ufologie.net /htm/silverbug.htm (1907 words)

	THE CANADIAN AVRO (A.V. ROE) AEROCAR VZ-9V (PROJECT Y) - CANADA'S FLYING SAUCER UFO by John Frost in MALTON, ONTARIO
		Avrocar found to have narrow flight envelope in tests at NASA Ames Research Center and in flight tests by USAF.
		Work on the aircraft in the 1950s was code named Project Y. Frost and his team initially set out to build a disc-shaped machine with vertical takeoff, but ended with a sleek, arch-shaped aircraft.
		It was to be called the Avrocar, and it would spawn a string of civilian and military spinoffs.
	ufo-joe.tripod.com /gov/avrocar.html (5422 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		EKIP (short for ecology and progress) is an experimental aircraft currently being developed by Saratov Aviation in Russia.
		Instead of propellers, the Avrocar relied on a blast of air to lift it vertically off the ground and push it forward through the air.
		In test flights, the Avrocar was never able to gain more than a meter in altitude and achieve true flight.
	www.intellisearchnow.com /pwrpub_view.scml?ppa=6inngWZkpnotwtVSkiwQq3bfej[v (475 words)

	Google Search: Charles McGrew
		(Note that both these aircraft did not become operational, for technical reasons.) The Horten Brothers' Wings - in the 1930's and 1940's in Germany, the Horten Brothers, Walter and Reimar, built a succession of flying wing designs which were quite advanced, and on the cutting edge for their day.
		The blades of the Avrocar turbo-rotor were hollow with internal re-enforcing, and brazed to cement the parts.
		Although the aircraft did fly, its ability to rise and top speed was extremely disappointing, mostly due to thrust dissipation in the impeller.
	www.cs.rutgers.edu /~cwm/NetStuff/Old-Me-Postings/alt.alien.visitors/known-disk-spaced-aircraft (2321 words)

	John Frost: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By late 1953, the project was costing upwards of $400,000 to the Canadian government and, in their infinite wisdom, they pulled the plug on the project.
		The aircraft was not completed in his lifetime but was flown after his death.
		One of its ingenious innovations was the use of a rubber bag as a landing device.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Frost_John_131726434.htm (1300 words)

	EXN.ca \| Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Called the "Avrocar", the silvery, flat and circular machine stood a metre tall and six metres in diameter.
		Commissioned by the U.S. Army, and built by Avro Aircraft Limited - which also built the doomed Avro Arrow jet fighter - the idea was to build a vehicle that was capable of vertical takeoffs and landings.
		The Avrocar's smooth shape also made it inherently stealthy: Its lack of sharp edges made it a more difficult target for enemy radar.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/2003/03/04/52.asp (1024 words)

	Flying Saucers At Edwards? : Edwards Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A.V. Roe [AVRO] Aircraft Ltd., a small Canadian firm near Toronto, began design studies based on a futuristic concept: utilizing the Coanda effect of efficient hot-gas ducting to power a VTOL aircraft that could take off vertically, cruise for long distances just above the ground, and then zoom to high speeds at high altitudes.
		The experimental "Avrocar" that was to demonstrate all these wonders proved to be a saucer-shaped craft some 18 feet in diameter and a little over five feet high.
		At the top of the ground effect air cushion, the vehicle wobbled dangerously in a manner that the team called "hubcapping." The radical research vehicle had, in effect, been transformed into a hovercraft, and not a particularly useful one.
	www.edwards.af.mil /moments/docs_html/58-04.html (566 words)

	[No title]
		These specific aircraft were stationed at MacDill AFB in September of 1967, and were later transferred to Offutt AFB (there were four different sizes).
		The aircraft were parked outside at the MacDill AFB scrap-yard, and measured 20, 40, 70, and 116ft.
		Please note, these aircraft are not to be confused with the well known AVRO VZ-9 AVROCAR, the Chance Vought V-173 “flying pancake”, or the Chance Vought XF5U-1.
	www.strategic-air-command.com /mystery_aircraft.htm (246 words)

	Possible UFOs
		To ensure the airframe is "clean" and thus stealthy and efficient, all weapons are carried internally (up to 40,000 pounds/18,145 kg in two bays in the centre fuselage area, with weapons carried on racks or rotary launchers).
		It had been expected that the USAF would eventually receive a total of 133 operational BH-2As but cutbacks reduced this to 20, of which 16 are being operated by the 393rd and 715th squadrons of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB,k achieving initial operational capability in 1997.
		In 1996 it was decided to fund the modification of the first B-2 development aircraft to bring it up to full operational standard, thereby giving the USAF 21 aircraft.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/b2_a_spirit.htm (664 words)

	flying disk
		It appears to have been the preferred term in military circles until it was superseded by "unidentified flying object" at the start of Project Blue Book.
		A popular description for the Avrocar experimental aircraft.
		Incidentally, there is no possibility that the Avrocar, despite its appearance, could have been responsible for any UFO reports, since it only flew at test sites and never at more than a couple of meters above the ground.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/F/flyingdisk.html (159 words)

	ThothWeb - UFOs: Ours or Theirs? Project Silver Bug - Man-Made UFOs
		The cockpit is located at the center of the aircraft with the orientation of the cockpit determining the fore and after center-line of the aircraft as well as the normal direction of forward flight.
		Since this aircraft rises vertically from a horizontal position, it does not require a landing gear or auxiliary landing devices.
		Since this airframe and engine will have a circular planform, the outer perimeter of the aircraft will be the exhaust of the engine and the thrust forces will be used for control of the aircraft.
	www.thothweb.com /article549.html (2797 words)

	Aircraft: Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
		In the middle of\'64 I was \'told\' to take the \'Avrocar\', which had been gathering dust for a few years in the hangar, down to the \'Scrap Heap\' and the local junk man would come and take it away when he came on his quarterly run.
		Well, I had been \'lusting\' after the box that thing had come in because it was high enough and had enough enclosed square feet to make a pretty nice house if you painted the sides after you put some windows and doors in it and built rooms inside.
		But a few months later I was tole to go down and bring the \'Avrocar\' back up to the metal shop where they spent three months patching up all the holes and dents because they were sending it to the Smithsonian Institute.
	www.aero-web.org /specs/avcan/vz-9.htm (700 words)

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