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CLASSIFICATION PRR seme CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. SQ d5-27Z3 arly . ° COUNTRY Chilo/Gernany OATE DISTR, 31 July 1950 - SUBJECT Cermon Scientist's Article on "Flying Disco® NO. OF PAGES 1 - PLACE wen pea fr: beech NO. OF ENCLS. 1 » ACQUIRED Retias +3 eh Li weedy GUSTED BELO‘) ~~ : | DATE OF SUPPLEMENT Saar INFO, ‘Frior to nid-1950 SPOR RO TO R Documentary —— Cee THIS IS UNEVALUATED: INFORMATION = 7 - " SOURCE Attached for your_inforration_is_a-copy, . translation, of ai artis a - subnitted by > : yfa-for publication in Condor, a Certian- lanzuspo. ese magazine publiched. in Chile.—…

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iG “wp ’ “um, _wthaty rst JA CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGLICY $0 DB=$27143 Attachowent 1 ol- THE HYSTERY OF THE "FLYING DIScs" A contribution to its possible explanation, By Dr. Cdusrd Ludvig, Santiago, Chile. Ay. Cristobal Colon 1916 Though the continuously reappearing reports on the appearance of nev, mysterious aircraft of unimoun constriction chould be considered with severe =... = skepticien as the rosult of a sort of mass-hypnosis, nevertheless sone of the Gotsiled and coinciding accounts of technically trained observers dessrve atten tion end pernit one to drav. conclusion® a; ag a to the ‘p…

Though the continuously reappearing reports on the appearance of nov, mysterious aircraft of unlmoun construction should be considerod with severe skepticion as the rosult of a sort of mass-hypnosis, nevertheless some of the detailed and coinciding accounts of technically trained observers dessrve atten- tion snd permit one to drav conclusion® ag to tho promable classification of these nev aircraft. Since po far the observations have been made mainly in the dark, vhicb eee mans that only the luminous parts of the croft are visible, every report brings the description of shining discs or circle…

-—movenent. Thus evolved the "FlettrermRotor", CENTRAL INTELLIGCUCE AGENOY 50 DBe27143 Attachnent 1 -2— procedure was later applied to a creat extent to the fighter plano thster Ju. 56 © under the nano of "dive.- ", This patent had to to handed to the fnelish factory Handley-Face after World War I, which explains that the nane of "Hendley- Page Splitwing" is nore videly known, However, developcents proceeded. It was principally the Acrodynanic Ex~ - _ferinental Institute of the Gottingen University, directed by the renowned Professors Frandtl and Betz, and Constructor Flettner, wnich drew its …

fron the theory of tho airplane-ing-boan. Flettner proved that the conditions ef a rotating object are similar to those which appoar ina "translatorischen" i movement. Thus evolved the "Flottner-Rotor", Professor Junkers, head of the,well known airplane works in Dessau, who in the year 1915 recsived his pathbrealdng patent on the one-piece metal wing without junctures, orderod a research group, which ves headed by Professor Dr. Bock, end to which I had the honor to belong, to investigate to what extent the uplift of a wing could be increased through the attachrent of a Flettner-Rotor in the sh…

yt BS “ CLITRAL TNTELLIGSUCE AGDNCY SO D273 with a positive dtarting angle in cornocticn with the enoraously high starting apood, Tho attaching of spoodily rotating tops assres. side stability. There 48 also the possibility of attaching horizontal auxiliary propellers of the. oo ". helicopter typo. And what about the question of the starting force? The eafety of such an aircraft stands and falls on tho starting force of the cylinders, and oo... only. too voll do I remenber the caswaltics inflicted by the lack of it. As I. -- —— _ mentioned before, only the development of a pas-turbine can brin…

mati yet nent aneeets 8 Bs ONLY GOO WOLL OD 2 Femeuver ie CeuusauaTo ae eew re wy vee meee nr mer nr pentioned before, only the development of a gas-turbino can bring the solution, sinea it conaists only of rotating parts and vorks vith tho dependability of a stean engins. There is only ore nore-question to be answered: could such en atreraft carry enough fuel for world-vide journeys? — This quostion is easily answered in the affirmative, In the first plate 4 an aircraft has a trenzndous oarrying ~~~ capacity; as we have already ecenj and in tho second place chemical reseerch has - made astoun…