VOLUME 19 JUNE 14, 1955 This design study for a flying saucer fighter was prepared for LOOK by Thomas Turner, a 30-year-old British aeronautical engineer now employed by Republic Aviation Corp. A Canadian saucer project that may resemble it in some details has long been rumored. Turner points out that the design could be arrived at independently and is only one of several possible approaches to the construction of a saucer craft. Future airports built for vertically rising flying saucers would have no need for the long, vulnerable runways today’s fighters require. The complete operation could go underground. Tunnels with take-off shafts set into the ground, complete with maintenance bays, fuel and crew quarters, would be bombproof shelters for a saucer squadron. The shafts would be sealed after take-off for camouflage […] Read More