Flying saucer, for real [Update Link to Cool Video !]

Originally posted by Sugarlump
this is not totally true.

And on a side note the brits put a jet fighter and airliner in the air before us americans did.


[edit on 15-2-2006 by Sugarlump]

Whittle patented the idea in 1930 and went to the RAF didnt believe it would work, if it wasnt for the war it would never have been produced at all

1.Recently uncovered plans show bosses filed for a patent in 1970 for a spacecraft powered by "controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction"

Article:British Rail Flying Saucer or Wikipedia

Photo:

2.Here is an American "Flying Disk", the article on Popular Mechanics website.

Article:AMERICA'S NUCLEAR FLYING SAUCER

Hope it will help!

No offence intended as I'm sure it took a lot of skill and brains to get that thing working, but isnt it just a radio controlled helecopter with a cover on it?