| LC control no. | sh2004007500 |
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| Topical heading | Avrocar (VTOL airplane) |
| See also | Avro airplanes Research aircraft Vertically rising aircraft |
| Found in | Work cat.: Avrocar! saucer secrets from the past [VR] c2002: container (Canadian scientists began to design and build a flying saucer for the American military ... two Avrocar prototypes were constructed. Both Avrocars are still intact ... in U.S. museums) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight, via WWW, July 22, 2004 (a prototype flying disk, which ascended vertically ... In 1952, Avro Canada began to study designs for a supersonic circular wing fighter-bomber ... The resulting craft was named Avrocar and given the [U.S.] Army designation VZ-9AV ... Two prototypes rolled out of the factory in ... 1959 ... The two prototypes reside today at the US Army Transportation Museum and at the Smithsonian NASM Garber site) |
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