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When I was small, My Father
told Me that 'the only Flying Saucers out there have "USAF" painted on them..
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Another, similar Project was the
North American B-70 Bomber, a Huge Aircraft that was Intended to Replace the B-52 (actually, a WWII
Design) and it was one of the 'New'
Aircraft that My Father was 'programming' for when He was in the Strategic Office under Curtis LeMay; the '70' in the Designation was for the 70-Megaton 'Superbomb' that Herr Doktor-Ing. Ed Teller had Designed.
That 'Project' was abandoned after the Engineers in My Father's Office determined that the Weapon was such futile "overkill" that they couldn't Imagine a Target worth the Cost to Use one...
It was something that would have,
if Used, Destroyed a City like New York (or Moscow) so Completely, that not even a Half-Brick in the bottom of the Sewer System would have been Recognizable as the Work of Man...
But Yeah, the "Flying Saucers" is a running Joke among those as Myself, who were around the Men who Built them... this Article was about something 2 Generations of Design before the Air-over-Plutonium Ramjet, and the Liquid-
Sodium Cooled Thorium Turbine Engine. (You can't Google that, because Google is Owned by the NSA...
I have a personal enjoyment of atmospheric phenomena which comes from my love of astronomy, which is why I suspected this