Talk:Circular wing

message: I have added an original research tag because of the claims that military flying saucers 'probably' used an 'emg drive', such a thing does not exist. (it is a claim for something created by aliens not our government, gravity and em fields are unrelated)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.200.6.194 (talk) 22:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research tag added 

message: The whole article is wrong.  Firstly In most cases the designer chose the disk wing primarily because they liked it, as opposed to any aerodynamic reasons.  Is wrong because there are very good reasons for saucer shape.  Firstly they are invisible to radars.  Secondly as they rise they create low air pressure at the top of the saucer and high air pressure at the bottom so there is extra lift.  Flying saucers which were designed to be manned were actually being manufactured in a Skoda factory in Prague.  So, this article needs lots of work.
:: FYI, this is called the Coanda effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coanda_effect)
--perfectblue 18:13, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is wrong 

message: according to this site: http://englishrussia.com/?p=810
the soviets experimented with flying saucers in the 50s. anyone know anything about this worth adding to the article? user:vroman
*The EKIP aircraft seems to be an interesting design. There were some news about the US Navy picking up the technology from the Russian.  I am kind of surprise there is no Wiki article on this UFO airplane.  Kowloonese (talk) 19:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian flying saucers? 

message: This page could really be improved by a picture. Whursey 07:07, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: A nonmilitary 1930's "Flying Saucer"
Since there are no articles on civilian Flying Saucers, this noteworthy aircraft is being mentioned here. In the book: "Airplanes of the World 1490 - 1976", by Douglas Rolfe and Alexis Dawydoff, (1978), 482 pages; on page 195, there is a drawing of an aircraft named "Flying Saucer".  It was built between 1934 and 1935 by Miami University and nothing else is written about it.  The aircraft has a fuselage with a propeller in front, a tail in the back, two wheels underneath the front, a landing skid under the tail, and a large disc on the top of the plane.  There are No wings extending from the middle of the aircraft to give it lift.  There are two small wings extending from the tail to give it control.  All of the aircraft in the book are represented by drawings.
Seemed a shame to just delete this, but it sounds like a mistake. --Guinnog 13:50, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved from article

message: This article contains very little information, and most of what it does contain is false. Can we merge it to another one? --Guinnog 18:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's just delete it. Start over. -76.17.236.181 (talk) 06:45, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: There is a considerably amount of literature that could evince the existence of covert projects to replicate the performance of flying saucers.  That material should have been cited in this article. Tcisco 19:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UFO Inspired Military Flying Saucers 

message: The title must be change in "Disc shaped aircraft" becouse not only military model was projected and patented. --Abyssadventurer (talk) 18:46, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of article title 

message: I think as it stands, this article does not meet reasonable standards of verifiability and is presenting speculation as fact. Consider the first sentence:
"The development of military disc-shaped aircraft apparently dates back to World War II. Since most of the information is highly classified, many details are uncertain."
I think this sums up the problem with this article. The whole thing is based around either (a) Aircraft that flew, but weren't actually 'disc-shaped' (the Sack AS-6, the Nemeth Umbrella Plane and the Vought Flapjack), (b) didn't successfully fly (the Avrocar, which never got out of ground effect), or (c) are undocumented, and pure speculation, dressed up with claims about being 'classified'. To sum up, there is no evidence that any 'military disc-shaped aircraft' have ever existed - unless 'disc-shaped' is taken to mean 'having a roundish lifting surface but not actually being circular'.
Incidentally, the discussion of the Vought Flapjack's aerodynamics is nonsensical.
AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:59, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation as fact? 

message: I've deleted this, as it isn't a 'military disc-shaped aircraft'. There is nothing to suggest this design ever had a military purpose (if it had a purpose at all, beyond hoaxing people). It is supposedly a spacecraft not an aircraft in any case. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted 'British Rail flying saucer' image 

message: Y'all need the Haunebu! A Nazi X-plane from WWII. I believe they developed it in an underground fort in some Polish mountains where many other Nazi forts were linked by a series of tunnels. Where the Haunebu is thought to be is sealed off from when the Nazi's were leaving and destroying the facility. There is also a place above/near the fort where it is thought to be tested. I got more in my brain so I will make an account and stick this in the actual article.
BBB 28/4/15  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.44.22.217 (talk) 20:39, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  BUTTER BALL BILL FROM S1914 DID THIS BIT! 

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