O verdadeiro disco voador - Avrocar #EP46
O verdadeiro disco voador - Avrocar #EP46
Livro sobre o assunto:
Bill Rose, Tony Buttler. Secret Projects Flying Saucer Aircraft. Midland Publishing. 2007.
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Documentos desclassificados:
Project 1794 Final Development Summary Report: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6920770
Program Planning Report, Project 1794 Extension Program: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6981836
Relatórios em vídeo desclassificados:
[US National Archives] DVD Avrocar I Progress Report 01/02/1958 - 05/1959: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMF99kJGLQc
[US National Archives] Disc Flight Development, Avrocar I Progress Report, 05/02/1959 - 04/12/1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSo31A9j_I
[US National Archives] Avrocar Continuation Test Program and Terrain Test Program, 06/01/1960 - 06/14/1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opD86VZSWpo
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Patentes:
Fluid Sustainded Aircraft (US 3051415): http://209.197.127.50/ifo/lib/AVRO-CAR-Patent/index.html
Radial flow gas turbine engine rotor bearing. Patente (US3024966): https://patents.google.com/patent/US3024966A/en
Disc aircraft with multiple radially disposed gas turbine engine (USA 103018068): http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat3018068.pdf
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Artigo sobre o assunto:
Desire Francine G. Fedrigo. Avrocar: a real flying saucer: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06916.pdf
Sites:
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195801/avro-canada-vz-9av-avrocar/
SANDBOXX: VZ-9 AVROCAR. THE AIR FORCE’S FLYING SAUCER (CAME FROM CANADA): https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/vz-9-avrocar-the-air-forces-flying-saucer-came-from-canada/
Amherst College. Avro & The Flying Saucer That Never Was: https://www.amherst.edu/users/L/u5klefebvre/the_dude_imbibes/node/612193
Smithsonian Magazine. The Pentagon’s Flying Saucer Problem: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-pentagons-flying-saucer-problem-4613827/
Royal Aviation Museum. AVRO CANADA VZ-9 AVROCAR (REPLICA): https://royalaviationmuseum.com/aircraft/avro-canada-vz-9-avrocar-replica/
ANAC. Efeito solo: https://www2.anac.gov.br/anacpedia/por_por/tr613.htm
SKYbrary. Ground Effect: https://skybrary.aero/articles/ground-effect
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Consultas realizadas na wikipedia, com muito bom senso é claro:
Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
John Carver Meadows Frost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carver_Meadows_Frost
Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-100_Canuck
Coandă effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
Ground effect (aerodynamics): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)
Turbofan: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan
BAE Sea Harrier: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Sea_Harrier
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Algumas imagens e vídeos estão em domínio público, são autorais de Invenções na História ou são cortesia de:
Vídeos (Ampliados e restaurados utilizando Inteligência Artificial):
[US National Archives] DVD Avrocar I Progress Report 01/02/1958 - 05/1959: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMF99kJGLQc
[US National Archives] Disc Flight Development, Avrocar I Progress Report, 05/02/1959 - 04/12/1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSo31A9j_I
[US National Archives] Avrocar Continuation Test Program and Terrain Test Program, 06/01/1960 - 06/14/1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opD86VZSWpo
[Nuclear Vault] Atomic Bomb Blast Effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asTkuCSJr2k
[Nuclear Vault] Operation Ivy - Nuclear Fusion Test Film (1952): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be24Ft4kIa0
[PublicResourceOrg] Big Picture: Wings at the Tree Tops: https://youtu.be/fwHznDo61e4
[Nuclear Vault] 50 Megaton Tsar Bomba Declassified • Ivan RDS-220 Hydrogen Bomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhZ3i-HXS0
Video by ROMAN ODINTSOV: https://www.pexels.com/video/person-pouring-wine-into-glass-6421254/
[Xander store] Dyson Airwrap - Coanda effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idh4RNg4ANY
[Lockheed Martin] First F-35B Vertical Takeoff Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW28Mb1YvwY
[AiirSource Military]. Legendary Jump Jet: AV-8B Harrier Short Takeoffs & Vertical Landings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7z7bepS9M
[Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]. Apollo 15 Splashdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Vd75Ptg9I
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Imagens (Ampliadas e restauradas utilizando Inteligência Artificial):
[Public domain via Wikimedia Commons] Colour avrocar 59: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colour_avrocar_59.jpg
[Bzuk via Wikimedia Commons]. John Frost color: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Frost_colour.jpg
[Axda0002 via Wikimedia Commons]. Coanda Spoon. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coanda_Spoon.jpg
[Company lierature by Bzuk via Wikimedia Commons]: Army Avrocars depicted as "flying jeeps" in company literature: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Army_Avrocars_02.jpg
[William “Bill” Zukvia via Wikimedia Commons]. Avrocar 3-view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avrocar_3-view.jpg
[Wikimedia Commons]. Colour avrocar 59: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colour_avrocar_59.jpg
Diversas imagens do AVROCAR VZ-9AV: http://209.197.127.50/ifo/lib/AVRO-Car.html
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