In news:Xns9816CE0AB454Bkiwilovesomewherenz@203.109.252.31,
Harvey@NZ <kiwilove@co.nz> typed:

"Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com> wrote in
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In news:qk0rc2lthsatjcea33f7f6tc0m2hltmr53@4ax.com,
http://peaceinspace.com <truth@r.us> typed:

I have seen on the History Channell a show about flying disks built
by US.

Yesh the AVRO, and it flew for a few feet and crashed.

Not sure the AVRO air car would qualify as an American built craft.
It was made in Canada and AFAIK AVRO was a British owned company,
AVRO are best known for the Lancaster and later the Vulcan bomber
which were some what more successful :)

There is an aspect about the Avro project, not generally known about.
In that, in the Nick Cook book "The Hunt for Zero Point"
which deals with Nazi Super secret weapons and technology,
Anti-gravity, the US Aerospace industry and history, and
Zero Point Energy --- it mentions that the Avro Air Car seems to have
just been a cover, and was not the real project, that Avro had in
mind to build. It had a much higher specced vehicle in mind, much
more ambitious than the Air Car - but of course it got canned, or
stopped in development, and somehow the Air Car was made to be some
fall guy for the entire project. Details are in the book.
Believe it or not.

I dare say it's possible. I think there are probably valid reasons why one
would not want to develop anti-gravity vehicles particularly for general
production. Well if people were flying about in individual flying saucers,
fences would become obsolete and you would not be able to control who flew
over your property. In capitalist societies the concepts of property,
ownership, and trespass are very strong.

This would perhaps also explain why making such vehicles using more
conventional means, such as fans and lighter than air gasses such as helium
or even vacuums, have never caught on as a means of personal transportation.
The thing is we know small fan driven craft can work, because not only can
one buy remote control fan driven model flying saucers the military use such
technology for making drone and surveillance aircraft. On the other end of
the scale of course there are helium airships many of which these days use a
combination of  flight technologies including vertical propellers, and wings
in addition to lighter than air gas, so such vehicles don't have to be as
big as the Hindenburg in order to be able to carry a high payload and can
actually be heavier than air. Since they fly using hybrid technologies.

There is actually a company which have been developing such hybrid craft I
think it's a German company, some of their craft look Thunderbird II and use
swivelling propellers to achieve lift. I know some of the craft are quite
large and there was a Website showing how it could be used for military
transport since it could lift tanks and other armoured vehicles. The company
were talking about defence applications, and the site and pictures have
since mysteriously disappeared LOL All I could find at the moment is this
smaller prototype
http://www.wildbeast.info/the_airship_company__airship_over_desser_1024.jpg

But generally I think there are good reasons why small scale hybrid craft
have never caught on for personal transportation i.e flying cars. Not only
would they be dangerous, they would simply not allow people to fly over
private property. If everyone had their own flying saucer, you'd probably
get criminals flying into fenced off areas, and burglars parking outside
your window on the 20th story LOL. It would be chaos. So I don't thinks it's
because the technology isn't there, it's just that there are good reasons
for wanting to keep the public tied to the ground.
-- 
Amanda