the "AVRO" project
In 1958 Viktor Schauberger (inventor of the Repulsin) was approached by Karl Gerchsheimer and Robert Donner, with an invitation to come to the US to further develop his inventions. Schauberger started his collaboration with the joint venture that pretended to develop a disc shaped flying aircraft, the AVRO VZ-9.
Once again, he refused to co-operate with the military and after the project failed, he was forced to sell all his work and patents and buy a flight ticket back home. He returned to Austria but died in Linz, Austria, on September 25, 1958, just 5 months after having returned.
Once again, he refused to co-operate with the military and after the project failed, he was forced to sell all his work and patents and buy a flight ticket back home. He returned to Austria but died in Linz, Austria, on September 25, 1958, just 5 months after having returned.
The first free-flight test of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was conducted on 12 Nov 1959 with Avro test pilot Mladyslaw "Spud" Potocki at the controls. He would hover and zoom as the exhaust from beneath the vehicle blew ice and other debris across the tarmac. The Avrocar hovered happily close to solid ground but became dangerously unstable at heights over 2.5 metres. In the July 1997 edition of Popular Mechanics Jim Wilson wrote about the VZ-9 Avrocar "Declassified records obtained by PM in the course of its investigation suggest that these marginally performing craft were, in fact, shills intended to disguise the existence of more formidable flying machines."
