After completing the story mission, Franklin will meet an eccentric hippie with paranoid tendencies in the Grand Senora desert, who, using a strange device, is looking for aliens here.
Omega, which is the name of our new friend, claims that he was almost kidnapped by aliens who were going (well, who would doubt it?) To experiment on him, but their spaceship crashed. Now he wants to restore the crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft, for which he needs to collect the wreckage of a UFO. But that's bad luck - as a result of the accident, parts of the crashed spaceship were scattered throughout the state of San Andreas, and in order to repair the flying saucer, you need to find them all.
There is a total of 50 wreckage to be found, with the collection of crashed starship parts being mandatory to reach 100 percent in the game completion statistics. And if someone thinks that finding them will be easy, you can only wish him luck. However, the developers took care of the players, making the search a little easier - the fragments of the UFO have a slight pulsating glow, thanks to which they are clearly visible in the dark, and emit a quiet rhythmic buzzing sound when the character approaches.
You can also go looking for parts of the spaceship with Chop - this will simplify the task even more. Franklin's dog can search for hidden objects, including UFO debris, at a short distance, notifying the owner of the find with a loud bark. To increase the distance at which Chop can smell these objects, the dog needs to be trained using the iFruit mobile application by installing it on your smartphone or tablet. Nevertheless, it will take a very long time to search for the wreckage in an “honest” way - it is much easier to use our and the following tips by taking a helicopter and flying around the indicated places. In this case, the search will take one and a half, maximum two hours.
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Pictured in 1969. Sweden. And here's the reason for all this:
Everyone more or less knows what Finnish houses are. Houses are like houses. Wooden, prefabricated, in general - ordinary. But not all Finnish houses are like that. In the late 1960s, a Finnish architect designed houses in the form of flying saucers. Space Finnish houses. How.
Needless to say, in those years, humanity was simply obsessed with space, which its representatives successfully began to conquer.
It seemed that from that moment the future had come - exactly what science fiction writers predicted.
In a state of euphoria, people had the feeling that various futuristic novelties come into use almost every day. Yesterday we flew into space, today we will make robots work, and tomorrow we will drive flying cars into garages.
Matti Suuronen looked colorful (photo by arcspace.com)
Literally everything had to correspond to the new "cosmic" world. Vehicles, household appliances and much more began to take on the shape of rockets, and people mentally tried on the uniform of space travelers.
It is clear that the dwellings could no longer look like rectangular boxes. We needed houses in the spirit of the era. And they appeared.
In 1968, Finnish architect Matti Suuronen made his hard-to-pronounce name famous by designing a house in the shape of a "flying saucer". Elliptical windows, interior lines flowing with intricate waves, all-round visibility and a kitchen reminiscent of a spaceship compartment.
By the way, the door to the dwelling opened like a ladder - it fell out.
Against the backdrop of numerous reports of UFO sightings in imminent contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, then many had no doubts.
Suuronen did not seek to explain his fantasies with logic. The convenience and rationality of such a house, in comparison with a traditional dwelling, is debatable. Take, for example, furniture. You can't put an oak wardrobe in a round house.
This means that all the details of the situation had to be reinvented, which, however, was not a problem - there were more than enough “space” design solutions in those years. Even in Finland.
"Futuro" on Dombai during the Soviet era, 3,000 meters high (photo phinnweb.com)
By the way, at first the architect did not impose his concept as a new form of housing - he assumed that the structure would be used as a ski lodge or something like that.
Then his plans changed, and the non-flying saucers were called the perfect country house where a small family can spend a vacation or a weekend.
The project was overgrown with new details and acquired a proper name - "Futuro" (Futuro).
The Finnish dreamer almost did not think about the choice of material - shortly before that, he built a plastic dome of a granary in Seinajoki with a diameter of eight meters.
He chose the same polyester with fiberglass now.
Moreover, this material was inexpensive. Matti believed that his creation would be available to all the inhabitants of the planet, which means it would change the world.
In addition, if you could ask any architect of that time “Will plastic replace ordinary concrete?”, You would surely hear a positive answer.
By the way, in those same years, automotive designers assured everyone that just about all cars would be made of plastic.
Since then, engineers have built a lot of such cars, including serial ones, but the “mainstream” has remained steel.
Suuronen's house being driven along the Thames, 1969 (photo phinnweb.com)
A similar fate awaited Suuronen's house, but then he rolled up his sleeves with enthusiasm.
So the "plate" could accommodate 8 people and had a diameter of 8 meters, like the aforementioned dome. The height of the house exceeded 4 meters. The house was manufactured at the factory and, due to its extraordinary lightness, it could be delivered to the installation site by helicopter.
The Finnish inventor even considered the practice of "mobile living" - a week there, a week here. The streamlined house on legs-supports perfectly, in his opinion, fit into the virgin landscapes.
Suuronen's rosy dreams were drowned in the 1973 oil crisis: plastic prices soared and Futuro's production could no longer be profitable.
1968 Futuro is assembled at the Polykem plant (photo by arcspace.com)
It seems that only 20 such houses were built, but if you dig deep on the Web, you can find that there are more than two dozen Futuro around the world now.
And each is attributed to a famous Finnish architect.
Whether this is a desire to attract tourists, or proof that the feelings that people experienced 35 years ago have not disappeared anywhere.
At least in Finland, the USA and the Netherlands, several examples of unusual Finnish houses have been preserved.
One of them, registered in San Diego, was even put up for an online auction in 2001: in a very well-maintained condition and with a starting price of $25,000.
The layout of the "flying saucer" (illustration arcspace.com)
His other brother was less fortunate. In the spring of 2003, rumors spread around the state of New Jersey about allegedly found fragments of a UFO.
Later, explanations were added - we are talking, apparently, about some forgotten scenery for a science fiction film.
Only in the summer, a group of enthusiasts managed to establish that it was one of the Futuro houses, which changed hands more than once over the years and moved from place to place throughout the country.
He was in a difficult state - broken glass, dirt and empty bottles inside, peeling paint hung in tatters. Traditional American graffiti completed the picture of desolation.
The Finnish architect hoped that millions of families would follow in the footsteps of these people.
Fortunately for the creation of a Finnish architect, there was a new owner for a pretty house - Scott Gifford (Scott Gifford), who decided to turn it into a gift shop.
However, the history of this instance is rather an exception, reminiscent of the unenviable fate of Suuronen's design.
However, before the romantic fantasy of the 1960s gave way to the cold sanity of the 1970s, UFO houses had time to "scatter" far beyond the borders of Suomi.
Round houses served as cafes, motel rooms, exhibits.
This was the comfort of the space age (photo arcspace.com)
"Futuro" successfully conveyed the airy atmosphere of its time and therefore was not forgotten. In 1998, Mika Taanila made a documentary about Futuro, which was successfully shown at international film festivals.
In addition, an exhibition of photographs of extraordinary houses traveled around the world.
In Europe, several Futuro houses were bought by the Air Force to house technical staff at remote stations. The Soviet government purchased several of these houses for the 1980 Olympics.
But the oil crisis in 1973 caused plastic prices to skyrocket, fashion trends changed at the same time, and Futuro's market success waned. Polykem discontinued their production in 1978.
Then, in the early 1990s, Futuro returned when European artists began using it in their installations.
Well, here is the result:
And here is where someone else lives:
Well, here's a little more on the topic of the post:
Nostalgic selection of buildings from the 1960s-1980s.
Soviet architecture can be treated differently, but, nevertheless, it retains the unique spirit of the times, the monumentality and grandeur of the Soviet Union. We present you a selection of the most fantastic buildings of Soviet architecture.
Tarelka Hotel, Dombay, Russia
It was built in 1969 on the slope of Mount Mussa-Achitara, at an altitude of 2250 meters above sea level. The hotel can be transported: it is disassembled into parts or completely transferred by helicopter.
Boarding house "Druzhba", Yalta, Ukraine
A joint project of specialists from the USSR and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The building was filmed in the movie "Resident Evil: Retribution" (2012), as a former Soviet military base in Kamchatka.
Exhibition complex Belexpo, Minsk, Belarus
Exhibition pavilion of the architect Leonard Moskalevich, 1988.
Engineering Corps of the Ministry of Highways
The building was built in 1975 by the architect Giorgi Chakhava, who ironically held the post of Minister of Highways of Georgia at that time, i.e., in fact, the author of the project was at the same time his customer. Between the buildings there is a sloping park with a swimming pool and a cascade waterfall. Now the former ministry belongs to the Bank of Georgia.
Embassy of the USSR in Cuba, Havana
The complex was built in 1985 according to the project of V. Piasecki. Today, the Russian embassy is located here.
Central Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, St. Petersburg, Russia
It was built according to the project of S. Savin and B. Artyushin for 14 years (1973-1987), experiments were carried out here with a 16-meter manipulator of the Buran reusable spacecraft.
Summer theater in the park, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
The building was built in 1978 according to the project of the architect O. Petrov in the park pond.
Amalir Sports and Concert Complex, Yerevan, Armenia
It was opened in 1983 on Tsitsernakaberd hill. The project of a group of Armenian architects: A. Tarkhanyan, S. Khachikyan, G. Poghosyan and G. Musheghyan. A year and a half after the opening, there was a major fire, and the complex was closed for reconstruction until the end of 1987.
Regional Drama Theater in Grodno, Belarus
The building was built in 1977-1984 according to the project of the Moscow Institute "Giproteatr" (architect G. Mochulsky).
Regional Drama Theater named after F. M. Dostoevsky, Novgorod, Russia
The building was built in 1987 according to the project of V. Somov. Andrei Makarevich, who worked at the Giproteatr Institute in those years, took part in the work on the construction.
Crematorium, Kyiv, Ukraine
The crematorium at the Baikove cemetery was built in 1975 according to the project of the architect A.M. Miletsky.
The building of the Kazan State Circus, Kazan, Russia
Opened December 9, 1967. The building was designed by architect G. M. Pichuev, engineers O. I. Berim and E. Yu. Brudny.
Cafe "Pearl", Baku, Azerbaijan
Built according to the idea of the city's measure A.D. Lemberansky in the 1960s. It goes back to the architecture of the Manantiales restaurant, built in 1958 in the suburbs of Mexico City by the Spanish architect Felix Candela.
"House-ring" residential area Matveevskoe, Moscow, Russia
Architect - Eugene Stamo, 1973. Six years later, the twin brother of this house was built. In the courtyards of these buildings there is a green area with a playground.
Historical and Ethnographic Museum on Mount Sulaiman-Too, Osh, Kyrgyzstan
It was built in 1978 on the slope of the Sulaiman-Too sacred mountain, designed by architect Kubanychbek Nazarov. A small concrete arch with panoramic windows divided by vertical ribs closes the entrance to the cave. It was planned to house a restaurant in the building, but then it was given over to an archaeological exposition. A futuristic portal to the mountain bowels conceals a two-story cave complex, where the lower floor is expanded manually, and the upper one is left in a natural, “natural” form.
Salyut Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine
Built in 1984 by architect A. Miletsky. The building was designed to have 18 floors, but already in the process of construction it was “cut down” so that it would not compete in height with the bell tower of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Experts believe that the author was inspired by the architecture of metabolism, popular in Japan in the 1960s and 70s.
Hotel at the Olympic Sailing Centre, Pirita Port, Tallinn, Estonia
Built in 1980, according to the project of Estonian architects, this is a ship in the captain's cabin of which there is a restaurant. Project leader - Henno Sepmann. The current name is Pirita Top Spa Hotell.
Railway station, Dubulti station, Jurmala, Latvia
Built in 1977 to mark the station's centenary, designed by architect Igor Georgievich Yavein. The Baltic wave frozen in concrete is both a reference to the Soviet architectural avant-garde of the 1920s and a kind of predecessor of modern “space” architecture.
Pavilion on the territory of VDNKh of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Built in the 1970s. Unfortunately, this building has not survived to our time. The source of inspiration for the architects of the pavilion was obviously the cathedral in Brazil, the architect Oscar Niemeyer, a communist and a great friend of the entire Soviet people.
Cinema "Russia", Yerevan, Armenia
The building was erected in 1975 in the central part of the Armenian capital under the leadership of a creative team of architects (G. Poghosyan, A. Tarkhanyan, S. Khachikyan).
Khmelnitsky Regional Literary and Memorial Museum of Nikolai Ostrovsky, Shepetovka, Ukraine
The ring, according to the authors of the project M. Gusev and V. Suslov, symbolized a wreath dedicated to the memory of the writer, and the pylons supporting him - the hands of admirers of Ostrovsky's talent. The scarlet smalt mosaic is a red banner around a commemorative wreath. 1979
Building of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Construction began in 1974 and was completed 20 years later; at the time construction began, the project had no analogues in Moscow. Artistic compositions made of metal and glass are the main decorative element. The people called them "golden brains", there are many legends about their real purpose, including the ideas of "conspiracy theories".
Museum of Ilya Chavchavadze, Kvareli, Georgia
The museum of the Georgian poet and publicist Ilya Chavchavadze was designed by one of the most avant-garde Soviet architects Viktor Jorvenadze and commissioned in 1979.
Olympia Hotel, Tallinn, Estonia
In 1980, along with the Olympia Hotel, a variety show was opened on its ground floor. The building was designed by architects Toivo Kallas and Rein Kersten.
The building began to be built in 1970 and completed relatively recently. It is located on the site of the former Königsberg castle and for a long time it was the most famous long-term construction in the west of Russia. The project of Lev Misozhnikov and Galina Kucher was nicknamed by the locals as a “buried robot”.
Palace of Ceremonies, Tbilisi, Georgia
Erected in 1985 according to the design of Viktor Jorvenadze. During the years of independence, the building was bought by an authoritative local businessman, Badri Patarkatsishvili. Here, on the territory of the former wedding palace of the capital of Soviet Georgia, in 2008 he was buried.
But… Many thousands of people have already seen unsupported flying structures created by supposedly hypothetical "aliens". Outwardly, their devices look like plates, triangles, cigars, and from time to time there are flying devices of very impressive size. Sometimes they move in the air completely silently, and sometimes they chirp softly, resembling grasshoppers, or rumble like a car.
Just to be clear, these are not aliens. From the information of the "Rose of the World" we know that in parallel with the machine civilization of mankind on Earth, there are two more similar civilizations living in four-dimensional spaces (igvas and daimons). The aircraft of one of these civilizations, called UFOs, periodically invade our three-dimensional physical world for unknown reasons. The following conclusion follows from the fact of the existence of UFOs: alien aircraft use principles that are still unknown to our science. In RM these principles are called metaphysical, that is, they exist above modern physics. In other words, today's pundits have not yet discovered these principles. It should be noted that it was the "Rose of the World" that gave impetus to think about the problem presented in this article, and we submit the results of reflections for discussion by our readers.
Science is developing rapidly today. Perhaps in the near future in any country (it is desirable that this happens in Russia!), The first aircraft in our world will be tested - an analogue of the LT, which does not have propellers and jet engines, but is not inferior in speed and payload to modern aviation . However, the work here for the designers of tomorrow is no end. Why tomorrow? Because people with non-standard thinking are needed: the "old school" cannot offer anything fundamentally new. Question: What special qualities do the engineers of tomorrow need to build an LT?
The answer is this. It is necessary to get out of the limits of the modern materialistic worldview, and to abandon a number of dogmas that dominate today in science. We need new bold theories that can become, figuratively speaking, breakthrough. With regard to LT, the specific request is as follows.
Since the task is to move in space (not in the Earth's atmosphere, but in space, including interplanetary space), physicists need to do a thorough study of this very space. Until now, in modern science there is a taboo on this direction of scientific research. The statement about the impossibility of the existence of supportless engines is the fruit of this taboo. On the other hand, scientists guess that space has its own structure, that it is not empty at all, even if we consider such an aspect of it as physical vacuum. By the way, Albert Einstein, an active opponent of all dogmas No. 1, was the first to suggest that the structure of space can be curved, and even conducted experiments proving this postulate.
Below we will give a description of the flying saucer design project - one of the options that have the right to life. We will not particularly decipher the technical points. Any reader who has mastered the school course of knowledge will be able to understand the technical intricacies.
...So, we are building a LT. Approximate technical characteristics of the prototype are as follows: weight 2.5 tons. Diameter 10 meters. Crew - 2 people.
The basis is a salon in the form of a flattened ball, where the cockpit and an energy source are located - which one - about this a little later (see figure below).
Engine is a heavy-duty carbon fiber ring that rotates in a vacuum casing around the perimeter of the LT. The ring is suspended in a tracking magnetic field, where it accelerates with the help of linear electric motors to several tens of thousands of revolutions per second (the limit is set by the strength of the ring).
It becomes clear to any engineer who looks at the drawings that here we have one of the varieties of the so-called super flywheel. The properties of such flywheels have been studied by Russian academician Nurbey Gulia for many years - he has written several scientific papers on this topic. Details about this interesting person and his research can be found on his personal blog - http://nurbejgulia.ru/
Interestingly, a flywheel in the form of a carbon fiber cylinder rotating in a vacuum casing can serve as an almost ideal energy accumulator if it is untwisted to huge values. Calculations show that so much energy can be stored in a compact flywheel that, for example, it will be enough for a passenger car for the entire period of operation - at least for 10 years easily.
Ring flywheels are called superflywheels because of their unique properties. The processes that occur with the substance of the superflywheel during its spin-up are completely unknown to scientists. It is clear that in the plane of rotation, a powerful centrifugal force acts on the material of the ring, tending to break the ring. It is known that in the flywheel, when it is pumped with energy (spin), the inertia of the substance is overcome. But the nature of such a phenomenon as the inertia of a mass during its acceleration or deceleration remains a mystery for science with seven seals. A clear theory on this topic does not yet exist. Existing discoveries in the field of superflywheels are obtained by trial and error.
However, back to our LT. Until now, we have not discovered any America, we have not used any new physical principles. The described apparatus today can be built in any aviation design bureau that has its own pilot production.
Let's imagine: outside-the-box thinking people were found, and such an apparatus was built. We turn on linear electric motors that accelerate the ring. For overclocking, we use an external source of electricity. Soon, the instruments in the cockpit showed that the ring was overclocked to the limit. In a vacuum casing, it can rotate in this mode for many years - provided there is no energy extraction. Once again, we will clarify that a powerful centrifugal force acts on the ring, seeking to break it. However, it is not without reason that a variety of carbon fiber - supercarbon is recognized today as the most durable material in the world - its thread is thousands of times (!) Stronger than a steel thread of the same thickness. By the way, there is so much energy stored in our ring that if it is converted into gasoline, then the fuel will be enough to drive around the globe around the perimeter by car, and more than once.
But ... Our device is not flying anywhere yet. Moreover, it firmly stands on the ground. True, the instruments show that the apparatus has lost about 20% of the weight that it had before the acceleration of our engine. The effect of partial weight loss by rotating flywheels has been known for a long time, and here we have not discovered America either. The nature of this phenomenon is also still unknown.
What else do you need to do to fly, you ask?
We argue further. In our engine, the centrifugal force uniformly stretches the ring in the horizontal plane (see pictures). The values of this force are enormous, and can reach tens and even hundreds of tons (!) per kilogram of the mass of the accelerated ring. However, no impulse of movement is imparted to the apparatus, since in any arbitrary place taken by the opposite point of the ring, this force is completely balanced. Dead end? Not at all! We can make our engine fly! 
If we slightly curve space around the perimeter of the device, then our force will have one more component directed either up or down - the vector is determined by the nature of the space curvature (pit or bulge). In other words, the device will either strongly press its bottom to the ground, or ... it will fly! For the vector to be directed upwards, we need the curvature of space in the form of a hole (see figure).
Question: how to bend space? Yes, very easy! using a powerful magnetic field. Super-powerful electromagnets were once tested by Albert Einstein, and it was proved that a strong magnetic field effectively deforms space (remember the Philadelphia experiment). With the help of modern technology, magnetic field generators today can be made quite compact.
The use of strong magnetic fields will force us to resort to special protection methods - in order to preserve our own health. For the human body, strong magnetic fields are far from harmless. Firstly, the LT crew must be reliably protected by the steel body of the passenger compartment - this metal effectively shields the magnetic field. It is very important for pilots and passengers that the field strength inside the aircraft does not exceed the permissible sanitary values. Secondly, the launch of the apparatus must be somewhere in an open field - the presence of people nearby is unacceptable.
...So, all the technical conditions are finally met. Our device was delivered to the test site, there are no people within a radius of 300 meters. We take the seats of the pilots, carefully batten down the cabin. We turn on the generators, carefully and very smoothly increase the field strength. Instruments show that the weight of the apparatus began to fall. Soon, the ring engine balanced the mass of the apparatus, and we slowly rise up, hovering at a height of ten meters. We can hang in the air for as long as the magnetic field generators are turned on. They are powered by a powerful source of electricity, which is located below - under the floor of the cabin.
Let's talk a little more about this energy source. This is also a super flywheel, which has two rings rotating in opposite directions. For what? In the process of extracting energy, the flywheels are braked, and if the ring is one, a torque will inevitably arise. When the device is on the ground, it does not really matter. But when the apparatus is in flight, the momentum of rotation must be somehow extinguished, otherwise our apparatus will begin to spin in the air around the vertical axis. Two rings in the super flywheel cope with this task perfectly - two opposite rotational impulses arise, which mutually cancel each other out. By the way, this is how a similar problem is solved on Kamov's helicopters: two main propellers are installed on them. Therefore, Kamov helicopters do not have a tail propeller that compensates for the rotational momentum generated on helicopters with a single main rotor.
Now let's fantasize a little.
… It turned out to be very easy to drive our car. Stick forward - we're flying straight ahead. Handle to the left - we lay the turn to the left. We move the generator power toggle switch - we gain altitude.
The control mechanism is as follows: 28 solenoids (electric magnets that generate a field) are installed around the perimeter of the device. They are divided into 4 sectors of seven pieces: bow, starboard, port and stern. If we apply a somewhat excessive electrical voltage to the stern, it rises, and the thrust vector shifts forward: the device flies straight. The right and left sectors are used to change the direction of flight - to the right and left. The front sector allows you to give "reverse".
Safety precautions are that we are forbidden to descend below 300 meters above settlements and roads. Otherwise, due to the high strength of the magnetic field below, cars stall, and people's health is at risk. Landing is allowed only in the deserted steppe, or at the training ground.
We fly in almost complete silence - our engine does not make noise. All maneuvers LT performs smoothly - no jolts. We are not afraid of gusts of wind, even a hurricane, since the LT engine has an excellent gyroscopic effect - any external shock is effectively damped, providing the crew with comfort that has never been heard before in aviation. If we have a supply of oxygen on board, we can even fly to the Moon - the device is perfectly controlled not only in the atmosphere, but also outside it. In interplanetary space, the apparatus easily accelerates to the second and third cosmic velocities. The external magnetic field effectively protects the crew from cosmic radiation. The force of acceleration (or deceleration when approaching the Moon) in this case can be set equal to the earth's gravity. In other words, we can experience weightlessness only when we want to. For the rest of the time, the journey for us will take place in a familiar environment, that is, with the usual force of gravity.
... This is how a breakthrough discovery in the history of aviation and space transport will be made. The safety and efficiency of new aircraft in comparison with existing ones will be increased by an order of magnitude. And if the windings of the solenoids are made of superconducting materials (physicists know what they are talking about), then the efficiency will increase even more.
The design has several interesting points.
In principle, it is possible to build a large anti-gravity platform that will hang in the air like an airship. However, unlike the latter, the platform will be a device heavier than air. Just like an airship, the platform will not consume energy to overcome gravity (if there are superconductive windings in the solenoids). The primary portion of energy for superflywheel acceleration will be filled into it at the factory, and the energy is very significant - it will be equivalent to several tanks of gasoline or diesel fuel (!). However, further transport costs will be miserable. Such a platform will pay off very quickly, and then it will begin to generate net profit.
The only disadvantage of these platforms is that their launch and landing will be accompanied by exorbitant values of the magnetic field. However, the field strength can be significantly reduced by increasing the energy intensity of the super flywheel of the engine, and pumping more energy into it. Take a look at the figure: if you increase the centrifugal force acting on the flywheel rim four times, you can reduce the magnetic field strength by the same factor in order to achieve a reduction in the total weight of the device to zero during the start. Of course, the strength of the ring material also needs to be quadrupled.
Let's say a few more words about this very energy intensity. Today it is measured in kilowatt-hours per kilogram of the mass of the device itself, and in the best designs this value reaches 500. That is, one kilogram of the mass of a super flywheel is capable of accumulating and then delivering 500 kilowatts of electricity to the external network for one hour. For clarity, we translate this energy into gasoline - we get about 50 liters. This value significantly exceeds any modern chemical batteries as electric energy storage devices.
The linear speeds of already operating ring superflywheels reach one kilometer per second, the energy accumulated by them is measured in thousands of kilowatt-hours, the energy output (if short-term consumption of high power is necessary) can reach several megawatts! In terms of energy intensity (the number of stored kilowatts per kg of mass), the latest generation super flywheels (with supercarbon fibers) have recently surpassed the most energy-intensive fuel on the planet - hydrogen.
For a better understanding of the processes occurring in the super flywheel, we propose to introduce other quantities that characterize the strength of the super flywheel material: the ratio of the centrifugal (discontinuous) force per gram of the mass of the rotating ring. This force is enormous: several hundred kilograms! Recall that the linear speed of the ring in the superflywheels already built today is more than three times the speed of sound in the atmosphere! In tomorrow's designs, this speed will increase even more. Consequently, the values of the centrifugal force will also increase and approach a ton per gram of the mass of the rotating ring.
A topic for reflection on "high matters".
There is an odd parallel here with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The great physicist in mathematical formulas calculated the behavior of the mass of a spaceship accelerated to the speed of light, and came to the conclusion that achieving this speed is impossible: the mass increases to enormous values. According to calculations, it turns out that when approaching the speed of light, the mass increases to infinity. Consequently, the force of the engines aimed at acceleration must also increase to infinity, and engines, as you know, consume considerable energy.
The parallel is this. (Perhaps, from the point of view of a physicist, the above sounds frivolous, but we will nevertheless voice our thought). The super flywheel, like an energy accumulator, is limited only by the strength of the ring. If we imagine that the superflywheel ring has infinite strength, then it can be spun up to colossal linear speeds. An incredible amount of energy will be pumped into such a super flywheel during acceleration, however, we will not achieve a linear speed equal to the speed of light, since the amount of energy required will tend to infinity.
It is not difficult to guess that super flywheels, charged with a huge amount of energy, can be quite dangerous in certain situations. For example, if an explosive device goes off on board an anti-gravity platform, or an artillery shell flies into the end of the platform.
However, let's not strain the imagination, describing the possible troubles in the destruction of the platform. Let's say this: technological progress can bring great benefits in a society dominated by high moral principles. Anti-gravity platforms today, when there is terrorism in the world, it is simply impossible to build. First, human society needs to grow spiritually. When terrorism has completely disappeared as a relic of history, the Flying Saucer project can be launched.
Nevertheless, let's hope that the current generation of young people will see the first experimental anti-gravity vehicles - they have such a chance.
It was 3:45 pm on Tuesday, June 23, 1966. The location was northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico. The sky was clear and blue. Julian Sandoval, an aeronautical engineer involved in the Apollo project, used his binoculars, which happened to be with him, to look at an unusual object hanging in the air in a northerly direction. UFO was about 300 feet long and had a bulge in the front, a rather sharp tail, and shone brightly like a strong electric light bulb. He hovered at an altitude of about 12,000 jesters above the city of Plastas, located about 18 miles from the observer.
For an hour and a half, Sandoval studied UFO through binoculars and concluded that it "is unlike anything in the United States." His statement is authoritative enough. Sandoval is a pilot and navigator. He has 7,000 hours of flying time on his account. As an employee of North American Aviation, he is involved in electrical equipment and environmental control for the Apollo project.
Until UFO rose up in vertical flight, disappearing in a northeasterly direction, Sandoval noticed that at the end of his tail there were 4 lights that changed color from bright green to dark blue. “When he changed position, he became brighter,” he later said, “and his movement made me think that he was using some kind of driving force.”
What type of energy do UFOs use? This is one of the most important questions of our time in science. Unraveling this secret could probably lead to the unraveling of the universe itself. But first, we must remind ourselves that there are different types of UFOs: saucers, oblong eggs, cigar-shaped, inverted-cone-shaped, etc.
It is quite possible that UFO each of these forms use different types of energy. The key to unraveling the mystery of UFO energy lies in unraveling the way they move - how they move or stay still in the sky. Indeed, some of them are described as having some kind of propeller or jet exhaust, but most do not appear to have any form of air support. They can stand still or take off like a cannonball when fired. They can decelerate below airplane speed or spin like a squirrel in a wheel without any sign of using up energy. They can fly in formation in such a way that the pilots' eyes turn green with professional envy.
Just a few years ago, George Wilson, a Pan American Airway pilot, was flying over the Pacific Ocean when he spotted a shiny object flying through the sky at great speed, about 1,000 miles east of Honolulu. Wilson, a pilot with 20 years of experience, insisted that UFO could not be another plane, and both of them - he and his co-pilot - watched with their mouths open in surprise as the object above them dived down, and then turned sharply to the side. “He had lights,” Wilson said, “one very bright and four less bright. Suddenly, the object made a right turn at a speed unbelievable for any known craft, then the lights faded out. Smaller lights were placed at equal distances. It can be assumed that they were all located on one UFO or on several flying in precise formation.
“A modern advanced air defense system may require the creation of flying saucers. Indeed, the design of 3D trays is discussed at the spring meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Baltimore. Most witnesses confirm that flying saucers make unusual maneuvers and change course in a way that is impossible for conventional aircraft.
Among the speakers at the meeting was General Benjamin S. Kelsu, Deputy Chief of Air Force Research. He stated that the main problem of modern aviation is the time spent on gaining speed on the ground and insufficiently long flights in the air. If VTOL aircraft were created, long runways would be unnecessary.
Many scientists believe that UFOs have a series of jet engines running along the edge, which allows the UFO pilot to use combinations of these engines to rise and fall to a certain height. These actions may be similar to a pianist playing the piano, when he strikes the keys in various combinations, thus creating a melody. Indeed, several cigar-shaped UFOs showed vertical hoops in the central part. These could be coils that create powerful magnetic fields, which may have something to do with UFO engines. In addition, there have been cases where groups of smaller UFOs have joined a large mother ship, possibly conducting recharging and refueling operations in the air.
It is known that UFO flying at 18,000 miles per hour. Is it possible that these unusual aircraft, which can, depending on the desire, freeze in place or take off from a place, are able to overcome gravity with the help of some kind of anti-gravity field? What is the secret of their resistance to the law of gravity?
Albert Einstein's unified field theory provides some clue to the mystery of flying saucer energy. An approximate answer is contained in his words that gravity and electromagnetism - magnetism created by passing electricity - are two sides of the same phenomenon. Just like steam and ice are two states of water. As we know, if ice is melted, water is formed, and if steam is cooled, water is also formed. It follows that if we could transform electromagnetic forces in a certain way, we could obtain gravitational forces that could set flying saucers in motion.
Renowned West German expert on UFO Hermann Oberth has been studying the energy of UFO movement for a long time. He believes: “UFOs probably use artificial G-forces (artificial gravity), which give them the ability to dramatically change directions and reach fantastic speeds. If our ordinary aircraft could change the direction of its flight in the same instant, then everything and everyone inside it would be pressed against the bulkheads with such force that living beings would die immediately. But in the presence of G-forces, everything flies along with the device, so there are no pushes or attraction inside it.”
Since Isaac Newton saw the falling apple, there have been many theories regarding the nature of gravity, but in fact its underlying cause is still unknown. Einstein quite definitely admitted that he could not define it. We know, however, that gravity keeps us firmly on the Earth, keeps the Earth close to the Sun and the Sun in our Galaxy.
As far as we know, gravity may even keep the universe from falling apart. 40 years ago, the eminent scientist Charles Bush discovered the rather strange properties of a substance known as Linz Basalt. He noticed that the substance emits even more heat than uranium. But, more importantly, Linz's Basalt refused to free fall under the conditions prescribed by the law of gravity. The Linz Basalt was not completely devoid of gravity, but gravity could not budge it either. Scholars have found Bush's message interesting but not startling. And only many years later - in 1957 - did research in the field of antigravity begin under government-funded programs. Inland Steel, Sperry Rand, General Electric, and others dealt with this issue. They all tried to discover the secret of gravity. It should be noted that their interest arose after UFO began to appear all over the world. Many scientists soon came to the conclusion that these unusual devices were not so much devoid of gravity, but that they simply used it.
The use of atomic energy is another equally important theory about the driving forces behind UFOs. In his book: Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Edward Ruppelt says that in the autumn of 1949 a group of scientists used special equipment to measure normal levels of safe radiation in our atmosphere and discovered a strange phenomenon. It was reported that one day two scientists were watching the instruments and suddenly noticed a sudden sharp increase in radiation. The indicator was so high that they considered a possible nuclear test in the area. They quickly checked the health of the equipment and began a more thorough observation. At this time, a third member of this group ran into the laboratory. Ruppelt continues the story thus:
“Before the two scientists had time to tell the visitor about the inexplicable increase in radiation levels, he hurried to tell about his observations. He drove to a nearby city and on the way back, when he was already approaching the laboratory, something in the sky suddenly attracted his attention. High in the blue, cloudless sky, he saw three silvery objects flying in a "V" formation. It seemed that they had a spherical shape, but there was no complete certainty in this. The first thing that struck him was that the objects were moving too fast for conventional aircraft. He applied the brakes, stopped the car and turned off the engine. Not a sound. All he heard was the hum of the generator in the lab. After a few minutes, the objects disappeared from view.
After the two scientists informed their excited colleague about the unusual levels of radiation they had discovered, the three of them asked each other if there was a connection between these phenomena? Did UFOs cause unusual levels of radiation? Of course, it was more than obvious. UFO activity during the period of increasing radiation levels on Earth clearly indicated that unusual aircraft used atomic energy to propel themselves in space.
Indeed, the student UFO expert James Mosley says that radiation is an accurate and very important clue. Speaking in his magazine Saucer News, Mosley asserts that the US government is already building and running such atomic saucers: “Ruppelt does not know about it, but a type of saucer that the government does not want to report uses atomic energy to propel. They use the method of converting atomic radiation into electrical energy and use the resulting mixture, which, of course, represents a completely new form of energy unknown until now. The saucers are controlled from a distance, probably because a living being cannot be in these highly radioactive machines. As fantastic as it may sound, as far as we know, these saucers are actually built, launched and maintained by an organization that is isolated from the military and political circles of the government. Although several senior government officials have been made aware of this project, they have nothing to do with it.
These saucers are launched into the area of a small nuclear plant. When they fly or hover in a given area, they absorb radiation from the atmosphere, converting it into what, for lack of a better technical term, can be called electrical energy. Thus, if a dangerous radioactive cloud appears over an area, one or more saucers are sent there with the special purpose of absorbing excess radiation. If a radioactive cloud appears over a populated area, then all the more reason to carry out work to neutralize it.
There are other theories about the driving forces behind UFOs. Many have observed them near power lines, cars, large street clocks, radio transmitters, etc., giving rise to the very popular reasoning that UFO"suck" the energy (such as electricity) produced by people. And how can we forget the Kansas farmer who claimed that a UFO hovered over his house for several days, and then - a few weeks later - he again claimed that he had received the biggest electricity bill of his life.
What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase " Flying saucer"? Aliens, "little green men", at the worst, are secret Nazi developments. Meanwhile, at the dawn of the era of conquering the air, mankind did not yet have the usual stereotypes about what kind of apparatus should conquer space. And some of them could well be called " flying saucer". And it is about some of them that we will tell you now.
It reminds a little of the famous drawing of Leonardo da Vinci (which, by the way, could not fly), doesn't it? Meanwhile, this is a really working model, developing a lifting force of 778 kg. Its author was the Polish engineer Josef Lipkovsky, who worked, characteristically, in St. Petersburg. In 1905, the first test launch took place, which turned out to be very effective. It was only necessary to find a more powerful engine ... However, the engineer soon switched to more traditional airplanes, and the project of a vertical take-off device was abandoned.
Yes. This is an aircraft with a circular wing. Formally - almost a flying saucer, only with a propeller. This model was created in the USA, around 1911. And it was called, which is characteristic, "Umbrella Plane". Materials - wood and fabric. But unlike the previous version, the inventor could not demonstrate to the general public the ability to fly his creation. So it is still not known whether this "saucer" flew.
And again a plane with a circular wing. Only this one " Flying saucer' definitely flew. But not at once. The very principle of the circular wing was patented by some Isaac Storey and Willband Zelger. Patented, but not implemented. After some time, a certain John Kitchen tried to build a car using these patents and lift it into the air. But nothing came of it, so he sold both the patent itself and the draft model to Cedric Lee, who was later joined by engineer Tyman Richards. And only with them, after a long time bringing the model to mind and polishing it with a file, they managed to lift it into the air. But only in order to smash it to hell in 1911. Tellingly, a recent study of a full-scale model in a wind tunnel showed that it was actually quite stable. Even despite the tail roll.
Yes. A full-fledged monoplane, but only with a circular wing. The model, created by students of the University of Miami in 1930, repeatedly took to the air, demonstrated decent flight characteristics, but could not interest either the military or civil aviation. This thing was called "Roundwing" or "Nemeth Parasol", in honor of Professor Alexander Nemets (leader of talented students). Its positive feature was that the circular wing allowed the structure to glide without any fuel consumption. That is, yes, formally - this is the predecessor of all ekranoplanes.
Yeah. Real " Flying saucer» Third Reich. By the way, the only one really documented, the existence of which is beyond doubt. Simply because she, such a bastard, did not fly. Well, more precisely, she flew, but badly and not for long. Couldn't find the right balance. They started in 1939, but did not finish until 44. Moreover, the concept was constantly being finalized, "improved" and redone. And the parts were taken from other, quite working aircraft.
It is too " Flying saucer» World War II. Only American. Efficient, balanced, even adapted to takeoff and landing from aircraft carriers. But alas, screw. And the era of jet aircraft was coming, so the "Flying Pancake" (flying pancake) ceased to be relevant, because it could not adapt. But yes, I flew and flew a lot.
Yes, damn it. Absolutely full-fledged disk-shaped vertical take-off and landing apparatus. Real " Flying saucer“, which for many years excited the minds of ufologists. Reactive principle, excellent balance, good maneuverability. But… But. It was difficult to control the thrust vector without powerful on-board computers. And it was 1961 outside. So the maximum speed that this device developed was 50 km / h. And theoretically possible - almost 450-odd. It also has a lifting force of 2.5 tons. Although it ate fuel ... In short, the project was closed.
Russian " Flying saucer". But in fact - an ekranoplan with a disc-shaped fuselage and on an air, damn it, cushion. 1994 Worker. Effective. Stable. Maneuverable. With an awesome carrying capacity and a bunch of usable space. The areas of application in both military and civil aviation are huge. In fact, it can take off and land absolutely anywhere. But... There is no money, but you hold on. We were looking for investors and even found someone in the USA. However, no significant results were achieved. An absolutely working project is still at the stage of "prospective development".
In fact, the concept itself flying saucers”- is quite interesting and possible both practically and theoretically. In some respects, they even surpass traditional aircraft. Moreover, only for them, some physical principles work, theoretically possible, but in practice - so far little feasible. Even the same “invisibility for radars” is much easier to implement on disk-shaped devices. And not only her. Therefore, who knows what is being developed in the laboratories of the Pentagon and still operating Russian regime cities.
