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How to Build a Flying Saucer

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How to Build a Flying Saucer After

So Many Amateurs Have Failed

An essay in Speculative Engineering

by T. B. Pawlicki

At the end of the nineteenth century, the most distinguished scientists and

engineers declared that no known combination of materials and locomotion could be

assembled into a practical flying machine. Fifty years later another generation of

distinguished scientists and engineers declared that it was technologically infeasible for

a rocket ship to reach the moon. Nevertheless, men were getting off the ground and out

into space even while these words were uttered.

In the last half of the twentieth century, when technology is advancing faster than

reports can reach the public, it is fashionable to hold the pronouncements of yesterday’s

experts to ridicule. But there is something anomalous about the consistency with which

eminent authorities fail to recognize technological advances even while they are being

made. You must bear in mind that these men are not given to making public

pronouncements in haste; their conclusions are reached after exhaustive calculations and

proofs, and they are better informed about their subject than anyone else alive. But by

and large, revolutionary advances in technology do not contribute to the advantage of

established experts, so they tend to believe that the challenge cannot possibly be

realized.

The UFO phenomenon is a perversity in the annals of revolutionary engineering.

On the one hand, public authorities deny the existence of flying saucers and prove their

existence to be impossible. This is just as we should expect from established experts.

But on the other hand, people who believe that flying saucers exist have produced

findings that only tend to prove that UFOs are technologically infeasible by any known

combination of materials and locomotion.

There is reason to suspect that the people who believe in the existence of UFOs

do not want to discover the technology because it is not in the true believer’s self interest

that a flying saucer be within the capability of human engineering. The true believer

wants to believe that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin because he is seeking some kind

of relief from debt and taxes by an alliance with superhuman powers.

If anyone with mechanical ability really wanted to know how a saucer flies, he

would study the testimonies to learn the flight characteristics of this craft, and then ask,

“How can we do this saucer thing?” This is probably what Werner Von Braun said

when he decided that it was in his self-interest to launch man into space: “How can we

get this bird off the ground, and keep it off?”

Well, what is a flying saucer? It is a disc-shaped craft about thirty feet in

diameter with a dome in the center accommodating the crew and, presumably, the

operating machinery. And it flies. So let us begin by building a disc-shaped airfoil,

mount the cockpit and the engine under a central canopy, and see if we can make it fly.

As a matter of fact, during World War II the United States actually constructed a

number of experimental aircraft conforming to these specifications, and photographs of

the craft are published from time to time in popular magazines about science and flight.

It is highly likely that some of the UFO reports before 1950 were sightings of these test

flights. See how easy it is when you ‘want’ to find answers to a mystery?

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