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Tolson
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Clegg
Glavin
Nichols
Expert‘Explains’ :—
Belmont
Mohr
Flying Saucers :=
By Uniled Press ;
ROME, March 25—Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 73-year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that
designs for “flying saucers” were prepared for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942. ———
“According to those designs,” ~he#—~~—— = a oe
said in an interview, “the disks
‘could carry a cargo of explosives
of any kind—and today an atomic
bomb—to destroy entire cities.”
Of the present rash of reports of
““flying saucers,’ which the U. S.
-Air Foree has declared are without
foundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said:
“Jt has passed my mind that some
great power is experimenting with |
fiying disks—without explosives or
atomic bombs.
DRAFTED PLANS
“There is nothing supernatural
about flying disks. It’s just the
most rational use of recently-
evolved techniques.”
Sr. Belluzzo said he personally
jhad drafted plans for a “flying
disk” 32 feet in diameter, but |
‘claimed they disappeared with Mus-,
solini when he fled to northern’
Ttaly in 1943.
“Both Hitler and Mussolini were
anteeeet ine gists he said. bos
“The principle of the flying disc —_ —————— DED
is very simple. Its construction is JOT RECORDED
easy and.can be done with very 1385 APR 18 1950
icht metal.
Sg jet pipes placed on either yer
side of the rim of the disk, provide
the locomotion. The orifices of —— ected een
these jet tubes are adjustable to +
ymit maximum and minimum ? \
speeds.
PILOT NOT NEEDED
«Ppyopulsion comes from a mix-
ture of compressed air and naphtha
__the same fuel used in modern jet . |
janes. fA}
, wphe air is mixed under pressure 3 Page
and ignited at first by cartridges } ,
and then by an electrical device. | Times-Herald
Terrific pressure 1S set up and the |
expanding gas forced out thru the
et pipes. : Wash.
; wphe reaction, comirtg from the h, Post
opposing pipes on either side of the
disc, start the entire apparatus re- Wash. N
volving, making it airborne.” . - News
The missiles could be aimed like
the war-time German _, V-2 rockets, |
said, and would descend when
e fue] was exhausted or cut off
y an automatic timing device _No ie.
wnan nlite would be a: op (A) RAPE N.Y, Mirror
Wash. Star
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