Subject: Re: More incoherent ramblings...
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Al & Peggy Petrie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:28:05 -0800

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

Live like there is no tomorrow;
Love like you have never been hurt; and
Dance like no one is watching!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al & Peggy Petrie" <[email-masked]>
To: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 12:13 AM
Subject: More incoherent ramblings...

> More from the deranged mind of Alvis:
>
> Der Fledenteller (The Flying Plate), or "So long, and thanks for all the
> strudel!"
>
>     Cloaked in mystery for over half a century, the Nazi Flying Saucer
> project was a marvel of engineering, as well as subterfuge. With the
> discovery in 1938 of a mysterious crystalline substance which defied
> gravity, top Nazi officials were determined to keep the material out of
the
> feuding hands of the various factions in the regime, such as the Luftwaffe
> and the SS. Burying the project under electric railway research, they not
> only hid it from their fellow countrymen, but allied investigators as
well.
>     The mystery crystal, named Cavorium, would defy gravity if hit with a
> sufficient jolt of electricity. The only device capable of delivering such
a
> jolt would be a very advanced nuclear reactor, so the efforts of atomic
> scientists in Germany at the time went toward the reactor project instead
of
> bombs. With there being only enough of the crystal to construct a single
> vehicle, the scientists went all out and devised a craft capable of
leaving
> Earth's atmosphere. The designing and construction of the Fledenteller
took
> over 5 years, and the vehicle was readied for it's first flight on April
3,
> 1945. While away on a test hop to Argentina, the secret underground base
was
> accidentally obliterated by B-24s bombing through cloud. Realising that
the
> Fledenteller's  usefulness as a bomber was a moot point, with Germany
about
> to fall to the Allies, a frantic refitting took place. Allied intelligence
> was to discover some form of exodus from Germany at the end of the war by
> top Nazis, but were never able to discover what means were used to achieve
> their escape. Two years later, they were to find out.
>     On July 4, 1947, there was an attempted theft of uranium from the
> Alamogordo N.M. atomic weapon test site by unknown individuals. Dressed in
> some sort of anti-radiation clothing, silvery in nature, they managed to
> steal an entire bomb from the test site and make off in a large, saucer
> shaped vehicle. Unfortunately for their plans, they promptly slammed into
a
> weather balloon from the Roswell Air Force base, and crashed in the desert
> outside of Roswell. All 22 people aboard the vessel were killed.
> Investigators went through the now radioactive wreckage and found to their
> amazement that all instrumentation and literature aboard were in German!
> Somehow, the Fledenteller had been hiding somewhere for 2 years, and
> requiring uranium for the reactor, the crew had tried to steal some.
> Realising the PR disaster that would ensue if they revealed the Nazis had
> been flitting about in a flying saucer for two years, the government
ordered
> the Air Force to cover up the incident. The remaining mystery: where had
> they been hiding?
>     In 1976, the US launched two probes to the planet Mars. Viking 1 and 2
> were the first successful landings on the Red Planet, and sent back some
> very useful data. However, some of the soil data caused some concern, as
the
> chemical makeup of the soil matched exactly some of the residual dirt
found
> inside the wreckage of the Fledenteller. For all intents and purposes, the
> Nazis had been to Mars sometime between 1945 and 1947! Whether they remain
> there is unknown, but many spacecraft have mysteriously failed while
> attempting the voyage to Mars. Accidents, equipment failures, or
> shoot-downs? We may never know!
>
>
>
> USAF 8 Ball B-4
>
>     Citing the maximum stealth requirements as a replacement for the
creaky
> B-3 "Bingo" bomber, the US government awarded the contract to
> B-Mac-Lock-Mart-Gru-Throp in 2044. Utilising split vector surface
enveloping
> boundary layer lift devices, the B-4 was able to eliminate all external
> protrubances  such as wings. Having the exact same signature, regardless
of
> it's orientation, the B-4 would be able to fool conventional detection
> systems right down to a range of 18 inches. The B-4 proved to be a truly
> invisible airplane, leading to most of the mid-air collisions in the
decade
> 2051-61. The vast majority of the B-4s 133 out of 211, were destroyed
during
> a light breeze at Holloman AFB, when they all tipped over and began
rolling
> about in a frantic and pyrotechnic version of pinball!
>
>
> Well, that's it for tonight..
>                                             Alvis
>
>
>