The construction drawings for this device are in the USA,
according to the article, and the drawings are also known to the
Russians. The chief difficulty with the saucer, according to the
report, is the tremendous fuel requirements during its assent.
This problem, it goes on to say, could be solved through the
utilization of atomic energy.
Let us look at the picture of the three saucers again. In the
lower left picture two dark objects can be seen resting on its
top. Mr. Rothkugel suggests these may be bombs or fuel. Let us
assume the latter, that they are fuel drums for refueling the
saucer. In the USA metal drums of this type commonly contain
petroleum products. They measure about three feet in height.
Two are shown but six lengths could be stretched across this
saucer with perhaps inches to spare. A meter is slightly over a
yard. This saucer roughly corresponds in size to the description
given in the Aftonbladet article. The picture on the right,
minus the fuel drums and poised above some buildings, clearly
shows that this saucer actually flew.
A whole technical history and organizational hierarchy can be
pieced together from this picture, the Fliessner patent, and the
Aftonbladet article. The Fleissner design minimizes the effects
of boundary layer resistance reflecting the outcome of work
starting with Ludwig Prandtl. It is a circular aircraft and a
linear descendant of the circular aircraft designed by Dr.
Prandtl and Dr. Alexander Lippisch. Fleissner states that he
worked at Peenemuende. Peenemuende functioned as the head of all
German saucer research. A fact of life at Peenemuende was that
all German scientists deferred to Dr. Wernher von Braun who was
an expert, the only expert, at everything. Dr. von Braun did
have an organizational supervisor, Dr. Walter Dornberger, later
to work for Bell Aircraft in the USA. Above Dr. Dornberger was
Dr. Hans Kammler, the SS chief of all jet aircraft and vengeance
weaponry. All these named men and organizations were part of the
German saucer program, their public denials not withstanding.
One more loose end is tied up relating to the Fleissner design.
This is the relationship of Dr. Giuseppe Belluzzo to the German
saucer projects as a whole. Remember, Dr. Belluzzo was a senior
scientist and engineer who specialized in materials and steam
turbines. The Fleissner saucer design is normally thought of as
a sort of ram-jet. But this ram-jet spun due to thrust imparted
to it by its exhaust. This exhaust-supplied motion scooped in
and compressed the incoming air before i gnition. Low speed
flight would have been impossible without this feature just as it
is with any ram-jet. So another way to look at this engine is
that it was a turbine-ram-jet no matter how incongruous this may
sound at first. It should also be noted that in the rocket mode,
when the saucer is burning only liquid oxygen and liquid
hydrogen, the products of this combustion are only heat and
water. Another way to say heat and water is steam. To repeat,
Dr. Giuseppe Belluzzo was a steam-turbine expert. As mentioned
earlier, Mr. Rothkugel reports that Dr. Belluzzo visited and,
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