Boeing's WW 2 Disc Designs

From: (robert arndt)


(Peter Stickney) wrote in message
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In article ,
(robert arndt) writes:
http://www.ufx.org/flapjack/boeing390.htm

The 390, rare, mostly unknown... even by you guys.

How so? It was mentioned in "Airpower Magazine" a couple of years
back.

My apologies to you Pete. It's just that I was speaking to the
majority of RAM regulars who never mention such aircraft, nor any
other disc designs here at the NG (probablity out of fear of being
ridiculed or seen as a UFO enthusiast).

I can't speak for the others, but I knew the disc shaped aircraft were a dead
end, that unlike you the U.S. had actually succesfully tested and flown a few
and that there was proof of such. You kept referring to "classified" documents
only you were aware of, how wonderful your designs were and how we copied from
you.

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Anyway, the Boeing 390 IS rare, more aviation enthusiasts being
slightly familiar with the Chance-Vought designs and almost no one
with the Arthur Sack A.S.6 until recently.
I knew about these designs way back in 1979 which predates the
"Airpower Magazine" recent article by decades.

Rob

Goody for you.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired