The Avrocar may look like a flying saucer from a sci-fi movie ... the design flaws of the craft required pilots to control each engine separately, which proved incredibly difficult.

After he landed his single-engine CallAir A-2 in Pendleton ... it across the water,” bringing about the now-famous term “flying saucer.” A mock "unidentified flying object" sits in a ...

Then there’s the turborotor engine embedded within the central ... Avro Canada constructed a prototype VZ-9 for real-world testing. The flying saucer underwent a series of ground tests and ...

Resembling a small flying saucer, the Avrocar was only 18 feet in ... the internal ducting robbed much of the engine’s power. Despite many design changes, the total thrust emitted from the ...

A bird? A plane? Superman? Nope. In 1947, it was all about the flying saucer. This past month marked the 75th anniversary of the Roswell incident — when rancher William Brazel found the wreckage ...

When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, in his single-engine airplane one afternoon in June ... that ...

A more accurate description of the device might be that it is a saucer, 20 feet wide when inflated ... briefly fired its engine twice to get LOFTID oriented properly for re-entry into the atmosphere.