Here ’s a quirky find fromthe National Archives : the United States Air Force ’s 1956 plan to build a dish antenna - shaped aircraft that would zip across the skies with the groovy of comfort . As the Archives explicate of “ Project 1794 , Final Development Summary Report ” :
The Air Force had contract the work out to a Canadian company , Avro Aircraft Limited in Ontario , to retrace the disk - shaped guile . According to the same story , it was designed to be a upright take - off and land ( VTOL ) plane design to reach a top upper of Mach 4 , with a ceiling of over 100,000 feet , and a compass of over 1,000 maritime sea mile .
And how much would this entire enterprise monetary value ? From Project 1794 :
Development and production aspects are briefly brush up and an scheme unexampled program blanket in reach than the study now completed is presented ( to dovetail with the maturation imagine ) , together with an concomitant price estimation . This estimation covers a period of 18 to 24 month in the total amount of $ 3,168,000 .
you may register more at the National Archives . It must be take note that — even in the public field of the fifties — fly dish aerial were bluster asthe next great innovation in commuter transferral .
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