RFZ-1

RFZ-1 was going to be the first flying saucer utilizing levitation technologies. RFZ-1 was completed in 1937.

The Germans were still very skeptical on how to control this craft, so they added flight control and a tail of an AR-196, sea plane. The AR-196 was a very rugged air frame with the ability to be launched from catapult, from a boat. RFZ-1 was also going to be launched from a rail system similar to a V-1. This made the tail of this kind of aircraft, great for something experimental. It also had a landing skid attached to its belly for landing.

All of this was unneeded and made the aircraft unstable. This resulted in a failed first flight.

After the RFZ-1 reached a height of 60 meters the craft lost control, because of the instability. The pilot lowered the craft down to grown, in order to bail. After the pilot freed himself from the craft, he ran away from the machine as it was violently tilling the ground around it in a circular motion.

Undeterred from this failure the Nazis were quick to pursue their next design of flying saucer which would be RFZ-2.