{"id":99931,"date":"2019-12-19T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/us-air-forces-flying-saucer-plans-declassified"},"modified":"2019-12-19T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:45:27","slug":"us-air-forces-flying-saucer-plans-declassified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/us-air-forces-flying-saucer-plans-declassified","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force\u2019s flying saucer plans declassified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-air-forces-flying-saucer-plans-declassified2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.archives.gov\/ndc\/?p=426\">Recently declassified documents<\/a> reveal that the US Air Force was working on a flying saucer-like craft in 1956. \u201cProject 1794\u201d was in research and development at the USAF\u2019s Aeronautical Systems Division, and was contracted out to Canadian company Avro Aircraft Limited. The craft was designed to be a vertical take-off and landing plane that used propulsion jets to steer, and could reach a top speed between Mach 3 and Mach 4, with a ceiling of over 100,000 feet and a range of about 1,000 nautical miles. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.archives.gov\/ndc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Final-Development-Summary.png\"><em>Project 1794, Final Development Summary Report<\/em><\/a> reveals that the project was going well, and would \u201cprovide a much superior performance to that estimated at the start of contract negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 Recently declassified documents reveal that the US Air Force was working on a flying saucer-like craft in 1956. \u201cProject 1794\u201d was in research and development at the USAF\u2019s Aeronautical Systems Division, and was contracted out to Canadian company Avro Aircraft Limited. The craft was designed to be a vertical take-off and landing plane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}