A saucer has been built in the last decade by a Russian firm but they could not afford production and sold it to Boeing that conveniently tabled it because it does not resemble at all the conventional aircraft. It looks like a saucer, has jet engines and, according to the designer team, cannot crash fatally if the engines are cut off. In a free fall, it assumes some strange trajectory, leaning to the right and left and this way cutting speed like a mountain skier. These are general things as I recall them and may not be 100% accurate. The only problem - it does not have a speed of light (sigh).
Something like this: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/13/russias-flying-sauce.html
or this: http://www.xuux.info/html/UFO-News/200906/19-8.html

Last edited by macnerd10; 09/26/09 07:28 PM.

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