Avrocar: man-made disk-shaped aircraft
US Army Avrocars were depicted as "flying jeeps" in company literature
Disk-shaped aircrafts are often called "flying saucers", but don't be confused because this UFO craft comes from Earth. Precisely, it was made by AVRO, Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, sponsored by the US Air Force and the US Army.
The Toronto Star on February 11 1953 reported that at the Avro-Canada plant in Malton, Ontario a new flying saucer was being built.
The first Avrocar prepared for testing at the Avro factory in 1958
The Avrocar trial run in 1961
Whole production process was carried out in total secrecy. Only few of worker in Avro were told what they were producing. Avro's workshop superintendant at the time Alex Raeburn recalls that it was so secret, that Frost would sketch the piece he wanted on some paper when he would come to the welding shop, and they had to put the sketch in special garbage bag when they had finished.
Even the footage from later exist, by 1960 it was being officially claimed that the project had been dropped. In the U.S. Air Force Museum in Fort Eustis, Virginia was for some time exposed 'prototype' of the Avro flying saucer, but was closed recently.
There is insufficient data on disk-shaped aircrafts and further projects, but it is certain they existed and is still being worked on them. Latest flying disk project well known to public and in some way extension of the Avrocar is the Project Silverbug.
