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From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: flying saucer
Message-ID: <2829@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 12:58:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 12:58:26 1985
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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Too bad no one asked about it two weeks ago;  I just threw out the newspaper
article that I had posted on my wall.  However, I'll relate what I remember.
The article had a picture of it in flight, albeit hovering three feet of the
ground.  It has eight engines driving eight ducted fans.  It's not clear if
it ever flew any distance horizontally as the inventor likened its aerodynamics
to that of a rock.  Apparently, translational flight would be accomplished by
tipping it in the direction one wants to go.  The newspaper article was a
"gee wiz" type of writing and did not give too many technical details such
as how one controls the thrust on eight engines at the same time.  The last
line said that the inventor had abandoned the current design for something
with more aerodynamics that would resemble a sting ray.