Beginning in 1959 the USAF in cooperation with NASA began comprehensive flight tests of an unconventional circular-wing aircraft known as the Avrocar, which was designed and built by the A.V. Roe company. The results of the tests performed over the following two years were unfortunately lackluster. The Avrocar had numerous problems and turned out to essentially be an early hovercraft instead of an advanced aircraft. Not quite what the Air Force was looking for, to put it mildly. When funding ran out in 1961, the project was cancelled. Ultimately the Avrocar project would be remembered as one of the blunders of modern aviation; a technical dead-end. But was it really? The genesis of the Avrocar were projects known as Y, Y-2, and Silverbug, respectively. According to documents now publicly available these projects allegedly began in the early 1950s, yet aircraft matching the descriptions of the now declassified designs were being spotted over North America in 1947. How can this be reconciled? Is it possible that an even more secretive project to design and manufacture circular-wing aircraft existed within A.V. Roe? There is a clue which can be found within the declassified documentation regarding the projects, specifically project silverbug. The designation which was used for the Avrocar (WS606A) was also used for a completely different aircraft which has never been publicly revealed. Separate internal documentation also referred to this aircraft as PV.704, “PV” meaning private venture. Unlike the Avrocar, it was listed as being a supersonic aircraft. Why did a radically different planform, which has never been acknowledged as being built, have the same designation as the failed Avrocar? It’s safe to say that someone had unconventional circular-wing aircraft as early as 1947, the likely contenders being the U.S., Britain, Canada, or the Soviet Union. Could the public failure of the Avrocar have been a U.S./Canadian counterintelligence operation primarily directed at the Soviets in an attempt to make them think that the western powers, specifically America, could not build a functional circular-wing airplane? https://open.substack.com/pub/theprometheanflame/p/ufos-demystified-part-two?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=57dssq submitted by /u/knowstradamus7 [link] [comments]