From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@privat.dk>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:50:31 +0200
Fwd Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:30:50 -0400
Subject: Russian Design For A Disc-Shaped Plane


Source: The Voice Of Russia, science news,

http://www.vor.ru/science/science_eng.html

Stig

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Design for a disc-shaped plane

The hit of an international investment fair in Vladivostok was a
project by an inventor from the Maritime Territory, Yuri
Bezrukov, to create a new aircraft that would transport up to 5
passengers, weigh 1200 kilograms and would be about six meters
in diameter.

Driven by two engines the aircraft will fly at an altitude of 4
kilometers at a speed of up to 700 kilometers per hour. And it
will be able to fly non-stop one thousand kilometers. The
machine is designed for vertical take-off and vertical landing.
But it will need dozens of times less fuel than the current
vertical take-off aircraft.

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