I direct your attention to the recent X-plane competition between
Lockheed and Boeing to design the next generation jet fighter, the
so-called Joint Task Force figher.   As a recent graduate in Aeorspace
Engineering, and an alumni of the U.S. Naval Academy I can say with
authority that the $2 billion spent in this design competition was
totally wasted.  They were required by the Pentagon to design and fly
a new vertical take off fighter.  This aircraft will become the
standard for all the services.  Yet, Lockheed's winning design devotes
so much of the aircraft to a huge fan in the middle of the fuselage
and an elaborate mechanism to direct discharage from the jet engines
downward; both features used for vertical take-off; that there is no
room left for any armaments because the aircraft cannot fly with any
more weight.  Moreover, the fuel consumption is astronomical, reducing
the range drastically.

I believe this whole design competion had one purpose:  to develop a
new UFO-type fighter aircraft.  This new aircraft will use the
fuselage fan for extra lift, to augment existing "anti-gravity"
features.

I have details on the theoretical basis of this technology at
http://home.austin.rr.com/cmlab/Techne/

plus research into extraterrestrials and the Roswell crash landing at
http://home.austin.rr.com/cmlab/leviathan/

Bill Clark