Joint U.S.-Canadian Aviation Projects and UFO Sighting Reports, 1954-1955
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SECRET December 6, 1954 General James H. Doolittle, Acting Chairman Scientific Advisory Board Office of the Chief of Staff Headquarters United States Air Force Washington, D. C. Dear General Doolittle: At your request we constituted ourselves an ad hoc group to conclude the studies of the A.V. Roe Company project Y2, which was presented to the Scientific Advisory Board at the Omaha meetings in September of this year. We visited the A. V. Roe Company in Toronto on November 17 and 18. After considering the information available to us, we present the following report. We wish to commend the officials of the A. V. Roe Company for a most courteous and well-planned reception, making the fullest possible use of the available times. The Y2 is an airplane of circular plan form, originally built up around a radial flow turbojet with the exhaust capable of being de-flected downward in an annular jet for take-off and hovering near the ground. The airplane is designed for supersonic flight at high altitude, under which condition the exhaust jet is directed horizontally rearwards. The air is taken in vertically from the above for 1 SECRET NW 91198 Doolittle 34745775 Page 236