presumably consulted with. Dr. Alexander Lippisch at Augsberg.
Dr. Belluzzo's involvement with the German saucer projects should
not be assumed to be confined to the Miethe project.
Let's review the Peenemuende Project to this point. It is a wide
ranging project with at least two spin-offs, the SchrieverHabermohl project and the Miethe project. The SchrieverHabermohl project(s) employ a whirling set of vane-blades and one
or more rocket or jet engines in a kind of "spinning top" manner.
It may have been capable of supersonic flight. The Miethe
project differs in that it employs an internal spinning turbo-jet
first invented by Rene Leduc. Depending of the saucer
configuration, its thrust can be vented in any direction for
steering purposes. It also may have been capable of supersonic
flight.
This design was given further study and was probably developed
after the war in the form of the John Frost "Manta". A design
such as this may have been responsible for the sightings by
Kenneth Arnold near Mt. Rainier in the State of Washington in
June of 1947. It was probably responsible for the pictures taken
by William Rhodes as seen and described in the July 9, 1947
edition of the newspaper, The Arizona Republic. This same
design, described as a "Flying Shoe" may have figured in the
Roswell crash. Ideas from this design may have been further
developed by A.V. Roe, Limited company in Canada.
Besides retaining overall control of these two saucer projects,
the officials at Peenemuende retained and developed their own
saucer project. Using similarities between surviving pictures
from the time and the patent filed by a former member of that
project, Heinrich Fleissner, we can piece together something of
its design. Its identifying characteristic is its engine which
has been described earlier as a turbine-ram-jet. It could
operate using a variety of fuels. It could function as a jet
engine within the atmosphere or covert to a rocket engine using
liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Its speed and altitude limits
would have been much greater than either the Schriever-Habermohl
or the Miethe saucers, yet its construction would have been less
complex than the advanced designs of the radial-jet engines being
developed in the Canada as part of the Silver Bug Program.
Recognition of these facts, especially after the 1955 patent
application by Fleissner, probably lead to the abandonment of the
A.V. Roe, Limited project(s). A cover project, the "Avrocar" was
released to the public, discredited by its own designers, and put
away to be forgotten.
In discussing the Aftonbladet article we have jumped ahead of our
story slightly in order to connect the three saucers pictures
with the Fleissner saucer patent in a proper context. The
Aftonbladet article has other implication which will be
discussed. Now, however, we must once again return to basics in
order to illustrate the next stage of saucer development
envisioned by the German scientists.
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