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Tricky Dicky
02-13-2014, 11:08 AM
Using modern technology , outline the design of a 1950s type flying saucer that is:
A disc shaped object.
Can take off vertically and hover over a given spot
Can suddenly shoot away at a tremendous velocity emmiting a kind of bright discharge.

Captain Obvious
02-13-2014, 11:14 AM
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/15/15dab75a183faa78bb95546dfa0eb19e17b70a36601cd92603 f438df1fa81d2a.jpg

Peter1469
02-13-2014, 11:29 AM
Flying saucers dude...

Captain Obvious
02-13-2014, 11:42 AM
http://cdn.damninteresting.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/avrocar_cutaway.gif

Captain Obvious
02-13-2014, 11:42 AM
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5072bf126bb3f7ed2400002a-900-660/flying-saucer.jpg

Tricky Dicky
02-14-2014, 10:53 AM
Yes Yes but I was thinking more on the lines of a disc, domed top and bottom, with the top dome of greater depth so that the disc can act as a wing. Imagine an orange cut in half then the top dome would be made up of sections rotating around radical rods joined centre to outer rim, similarly for bottom dome. The sectors ( flaps ) hydraulicaly rotating around the rods piviting at centre. Similarly the bottom sectors can be turned in the opposite direction, the actual disc being hollow you now have a crude impeller. Rotate via a gearbox driven by a turbojet housed in a relatively small fuselage slung below with contollable deflector plates in the turbine exhaust stream so as to off set the resulting turning of fuselage - you now have lift, hover. Now still rotating the disc, at a safe height close flaps and using additional turbine blades/byepasses, convert the jet turbine into a proper jet engine and power the craft foward. After an initial fall ( dependent on timing of flap closure ) the wing now generates lift - stability by giro effect of rotating disc and pendulum effect of fulalge which can also be used, by tilting, to give angle of attack. Change direction by this means or simply rotate fuslarge to required direction. BUT IF the system could be made to work it would use up an enormous amount of fuel very quickly.

Max Rockatansky
02-20-2014, 11:11 AM
I was in the Marine Corps in the 1980s. This is when the XV-15 Tiltrotor was being proposed as a replacement for the CH-46 helicopter. It was over 25 years later that the V-22 actually began being deployed. Part of the reason for the delay was budget cuts, especially after the Cold War ended, but a large part of the problem was the tech didn't exist to handle the stresses of regular flight.

The saucer proposed has more moving parts and intricacies than a helicopter in a much smaller platform. A flying car would be easier to design and that quest still eludes engineers in terms reliability and less-than-astronomical cost.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/25/article-2268402-172981B5000005DC-260_634x355.jpg

MrJimmyDale
02-20-2014, 11:21 AM
Using modern technology , outline the design of a 1950s type flying saucer that is: A disc shaped object. Can take off vertically and hover over a given spot Can suddenly shoot away at a tremendous velocity emmiting a kind of bright discharge. Don't think it could be dome with available technology.........