This may well be the Canadian designed and built AVRO VZ-9V Avrocar. A TV
special in Canada showed one of two Avrocars mounted in the USA at an angle
outside of a museum. A quick search on the Internet turned up these and
other web sites.
http://www.aviation-history.com/garber/vg-bldg/avro_VZ9V-1_f.html
http://www.spectranet.ca/avs/acar.html
http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/canadadisc_u.htm
A friend of mine, Lionel Forge, helped to build it, and the Avro Arrow
fighter plane. Both projects were started and then cancelled in the 1950s.
I hope that someday an Avrocar can return to Canada.
Colin Macgregor Stevens
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Editor: "Maple Leaf Up!" newsletter & Webmaster
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British Columbia, CANADA
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1944 Willys MB jeep (ex-Norway)
1942 BSA airborne bicycles (2)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hutterer" <john.hutterer@deltec.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Schriever-Habermohl flying disc
> Andre,
>
> I'm not sure if this has any connection with what you are looking for, but
> 15 years ago there was a prototype "flying saucer" mounted on a pedestal
in
> front of the Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, VA. I believe that the
> plaque explained that it was a prototype of a one-man recon. vehicle. The
> soldier had to lay on his stomach to fly it as it was only about 2' thick.
> Seems to me that it was driven by a fan that was ducted down through the
> center of the craft.
>
> John
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