USA Test First Flying Saucer

During the 1930’s the United State started experimenting with their own version of flying saucers, after hearing rumors of the Germans making their own. These were built more like circular craft, rather than what the Nazi created. A man by name of C H Zimmerman conducted many winds tunnel test, while working for NACA, which would later become NASA. Under a document title “Technical Report 431” C H Zimmerman lays out his findings, in wind tunnel testing. Later he would take his scientific research and build a technical design for a vehicle that. While it wasn’t even a complete saucer shape, US patent 2,108,093, shows us how he thought his method of lift, be utilized. Later his design would be brought out, in the creation of a vehicle known as “Chance Vought 173,” which took its maiden flight in 1942.