Section Summary
It can be said that the German flying disc program built upon
itself, each innovation retaining something from a previous
design yet incorporating a new innovation. This progressed
through several steps until the original had seemingly nothing in
common with final design. At each step a saucer project or at
least a saucer design, seems to have been spun off. Each of
these spin-offs was not an independent, stand-alone project but
remained under the guidance and direction of an overall
controlling
authority.
If
viewed
out-of-context,
the
multiplicity of designs and spin-offs have led to confusion
concerning the whole. Proponents of each design or spin-off have
championed the project with which they were familiar as "the"
German saucer project. Let us try to keep idea in mind when
discussing the next group of saucers which may or may not have
had a relationship to those already discussed.
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