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This volume develops the theme of disc-wings and spinning aerospace vehicles in parallel. In addition to spinning objects of various shapes, several exotic manned aircraft with disc planforms have been proposed and prototypes built - these include a Nazi 'secret weapon' and the De Havilland Avrocar, also discussed in this book.Lorenz, Ralph D. is the author of 'Spinning Flight Dynamics of Frisbees, Boomerangs, Samaras, And Skipping Stones' with ISBN 9780387307794 and ISBN 0387307796.
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