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- FLYING SAUCER TAKEN FOR A SPIN AROUND EARLS COURT 26/01/96
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- Source: The Electronic Telegraph.
- Date: Friday 26th January 1996.
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- THIS super lightweight, 18ft flying saucer was orbiting Earls Court,
- west London, yesterday, writes Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent.
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- Unfortunately for UFO-spotters, it broke with tradition, containing no
- little green men and no flashing lights, and it did not bank and scoot
- off as soon as it was spotted. However, the craft is saucer-shaped and
- it does fly with remarkable agility at up to 400ft - so qualifying as
- a flying saucer.
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- It is one of a range of "Hystars" planned to go into production in
- Britain this year. The Hystar 101 is filled with helium and uses a
- reversible fan propeller at its centre to climb and drop. Eight
- propellers on its rim direct it forwards, backwards, sideways and
- enable it to spin.
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- These flying machines are the brainchild of a Canadian businessman and
- theme park designer, George Nankovich, who claims that within 18
- months he will have produced a 140ft model to carry 20 passengers at
- speeds up to 55 knots and at 10,000 ft altitude.
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