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Flying •. Saucers ~I Room_
:Sy UnHcd Pres.,
ROME, March 25-Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 7g_year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that
designs for "flying saucers" we1;e J)11ep?u.'ed for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942.
"According to those designs," ·hel"­
said in an interview, "the disks
•could carry a cargo ot 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 Force has declared are without
.toundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said:
"It has passed my mind that some
great power is experimenting with
t]ying· 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
bad drafted plans for a "flying
disk" 32 feet in diameter, but
·c1aimed they disappeared with Mus­
solini when he fled to northern·
Jtaly in 1943.
"Both Hitler and Mussolini were
interested in flying discs,'' he said.
"The principle of the flying disc
is very simple. Its construction is
easy and . can be done with very
light metal.
"Two jet pipes placed on either
side of the rim of the disk, provide
the locomotion.
The orifices of
these jet tu~es are adjust?~le to
-permit maximum and mm1mum
speeds.
PILOT NOT NEEDED
''Propulsion comes from a mix­
ture of compressed air and naphtha
- the same fuel used in modern jet
planes.
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"The air 1s mixed under pressure
and ignited at first by cartridges
and then by an . electrical device.
Terrific pressure 1s set up and the
expanding gas forced out thru the
jet pipes.
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"The reaction, c~mmg _from the
osing pipes on ~1ther side of the
ifc, start th~ en_tJre. appara,~us re­
volving, ma_kmg 1t airborr:ie.
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The missiles could be aimed like
l
e war-time German I V-2 rockets,
said, and would descend when
e fuel was exhausted or cut off
an automatic timing
No
d.cy,,ire
uman pilot would be requJred, =
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