If you ask those of us who grew up somewhere in the 1950s to 1970s what our car would be like in the year 2020, we might have described an Avrocar. This top secret vehicle from Canadian Avro was part ...

The Avrocar was supposed to hover, carry troops and potentially reach supersonic speeds. Its biggest problem emerged just ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately the Avro was done in by the Harrier family of jump jets, which were capable of VTOL operations, and could exceed Mach 1 speed. The other factor that killed ...

Just like the automobile market, the military industry has spawned quite a few weird vehicles over the years. While some ideas were abandoned while still on the drawing board, some were developed into ...

Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or flying saucers became a cultural obsession since amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold reported sightings of flashing bright lights around the skies of Mineral, Washington ...

Meet the VZ-9AV Avrocar: Is the alien spacecraft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, back in July 1947 now in the collection of the National Museum of the United States Air... Here’s What to Remember ...

For the most part, Canadian manufacturers have produced the kinds of aircraft one might expect from a northern country with vast, rugged wilderness, harsh winters, and a large number of unimproved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 1—The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has had a Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar in its massive collection since late 2007.

In September of last year, a National Archives blog devoted to recently-declassified documents published a post about an intriguing set of records from the Aeronautical Systems Division of the US Air ...

The U.S. Air Force, which has batted down many a flying-saucer report, has long wished (in private) that it could build one. By last week, the Air Force was prepared to invest heavily to make ...