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America's Nuclear Flying Saucer
In 1949, the biggest black hole in the universe wasn=E2=80=99t in space, but=
 across=20
the Bering Strait. Stretching across 12 time zones, the Union of Soviet=20
Socialist Republics was, as Winston Churchill would so memorably describe it=
,=20
=E2=80=9Ca riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.=E2=80=9D The few th=
ings that most=20
people knew about life behind the Iron Curtain seemed to be pieces of an=20
incomprehensible puzzle. For the handful of intelligence experts who saw how=
=20
the pieces fit, the =E2=80=9Cworkers=E2=80=99 paradise=E2=80=9D presented a=20=
clear and present danger=20
to the American way of life. What the intelligence community knew, and most=20
people did not, was that in the final frantic hours of World War II, the=20
Soviet army had hastily raided Germany=E2=80=99s most advanced weapons resea=
rch=20
laboratories. And, on Aug. 29, 1949, only four years after Hiroshima, the=20
technological booty from those raids turned a country whose farmers still=20
used horse-drawn plows into a nuclear superpower.

The fireball of the communist atomic bomb cast a sinister new light on an=20
event that previously seemed quite inconsequential. In the summer of 1945, a=
n=20
unusual rumor had begun to circulate within the intelligence division of the=
=20
European Command. During interrogations, captured German aircraft engineers=20
referred to an extraordinarily fast rocket plane under development at a=20
secret base in Bavaria. Unlike theMesserschmitt Me 163 rocket planes that ha=
d=20
begun to attack Allied bombers in the last months of the war, this aircraft=20
had an odd-looking curved wing that blended into its fuselage. The=20
aerodynamic advantage of this configuration had been known to American=20
designers for more than a decade. It created more lift than a standard wing,=
=20
especially at low speeds, and provided more internal capacity for carrying=20
bombs. In the early days of the war, the U.S. Navy had briefly experimented=20
with circular wing design for those very reasons.=20

Anticipating that the first generation of communist atomic bombs would be as=
=20
heavy as those America had dropped on Japan, it seemed reasonable to U.S.=20
defense planners that the Soviet air force, which then lacked a nuclear=20
bomber, would try to adapt German disc technology. The United States was,=20
after all, doing exactly the same thing with the V-2s and Nazi rocket=20
scientists it had spirited away in Operation Paper Clip.


In our July 1997 cover story, =E2=80=9CRoswell Plus 50,=E2=80=9D POPULAR MEC=
HANICS detailed=20
how Air Force interestin duplicating Nazi technology led to two American=20
flying disc projects. Project Silver Bug sought to build a vertical takeoff=20
and landing aircraft. Project Pye Wacket was to create small discs for use a=
s=20
air-to-air missiles. Documents declassified since then point to a third=20
secret project, a 40-ft. =E2=80=9Cflying saucer=E2=80=9D designed to rain nu=
clear=20
destruction on the Soviet Union from 300 miles in space.


The official designation for America=E2=80=99s nuclear flying saucer was the=
=20
Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV). It was designed by engineers at the Los=20
Angeles Division of North American Aviation, under a contract with the U.S.=20
Air Force. The project was managed out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, i=
n=20
Dayton, Ohio, where German engineers who had worked on rocket plane and=20
flying disc technology had been resettled.


The LRV escaped public scrutiny because it was hidden away as one of the=20
Pentagon=E2=80=99s so-called =E2=80=9Cblack budget=E2=80=9D items=E2=80=94th=
at is, a secret project that is=20
incorporated into some piece of nonclassified work. On Dec. 12, 1962,=20
security officers at Wright-Patterson classified the LRV as secret because:=20
=E2=80=9CIt describes an offensive weapon system.=E2=80=9D The project remai=
ned classified=20
until May 1999, when a congressionally mandated review of old documents=20
changed the project=E2=80=99s status as a government secret, downgrading it=20=
to public=20
information. The Department of Defense did, however, successfully seek to=20
have the document=E2=80=99s distribution restricted to defense contractors.=20=
PM=20
obtained its copy as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request.


Inside The LRV
=E2=80=9CThe operational mission design is six weeks=E2=80=99 duration at a=20=
nominal orbital=20
altitude of 300 nautical miles, with a crew of four men,=E2=80=9D according=20=
to the=20
report. The weapons bay would hold =E2=80=9Cfour winged weapons=E2=80=9D tha=
t could be=20
either launched or detached and parked on orbit. There are repeated=20
references to the LRV launching weapons-carrying clusters.


A considerable part of the design study focuses on the details of building a=
=20
40-ft.-dia. airframe and strengthening it against the acceleration of 8 g=
=E2=80=99s=20
and wind shear it would experience during launch. However, no mention is mad=
e=20
of the type of booster the disc would ride into space.


=20
Click here for detail.
Illustration by John Batchelor=20
Most likely, the LRV would have flown atop a multistage rocket, like the=20
Saturn booster used in the Apollo moon program. The engineering study,=20
however, suggests a more intriguing possibility. At some point, the LRV coul=
d=20
have been powered by one of the nuclear rockets then under development by th=
e=20
Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Several of these rockets were in=
=20
fact built and successfully tested in Nevada. Although the government claims=
=20
all of its nuclear rocket program records have been declassified, a search o=
f=20
the Department of Energy (DOE) human radiation experiment database indicates=
=20
otherwise. PM has learned that 40 cu. ft. of records related to the human=20
health effects of the nuclear rocket program, compiled between 1956 and 1975=
,=20
are stored in a secured location=E2=80=94Building 1001=E2=80=94at the Los Al=
amos National=20
Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. A DOE spokesman told PM that the only reason=20
these records would have remained classified was if they dealt with an=20
operational military system.


LRV Specifications=20
Crew 4=20
Weapons 4 nuclear missiles=20
Mission Length 6 weeks=20
Dimensions=20
Diameter 40 ft.=20
Center 90 in.=20
Edges 6 in.=20
Wing 1548 sq. ft.=20
Weights=20
Launch  45,000 lb.=20
Landing 33,395 lb.=20
Empty  17,042 lb.=20
Engines=20
Booster Chemical/Nuclear=20
Main Hypergolic/Nuclear=20
Capsule Solid fuel=20
Electric Power 7 kw (thermal nuclear)=20
Designer  North American Aviation=20
The four-man crew would ride a wedge-shaped capsule built inside the LRV. Th=
e=20
capsule would divide the front portion of the disc into separate work and=20
off-duty areas. The nuclear-tipped rockets would be stored in the rear=20
segments.


Although these rockets were not called multiple independent reentry vehicles=
=20
(MIRVs), they match the description of these multiple-warhead-delivery=20
devices, which were later banned by disarmament treaties. An MIRV-equipped=20
LRV would have been able to eliminate the war-making capabilities of the=20
Soviet Union, China and North Korea at the push of a button.


In normal operations, the capsule would function as the LRV=E2=80=99s flight=
 control=20
center. In an emergency, the crew could fire the capsule=E2=80=99s independe=
nt=20
50,000-pound-thrust solid-fuel rocket motor and return to Earth. The=20
capsule=E2=80=99s final descent would be slowed by a parachute, much like th=
e X-38=20
=E2=80=9Clifeboat=E2=80=9D planned for the international space station now u=
nder=20
construction.


A textbook mission would conclude with the entire LRV returning to Earth. It=
=20
would fire its nuclear or liquid-fueled main rocket to brake, then travel=20
edge-first into the atmosphere. Its disc form would dissipate the heat of=20
re-entry, then act as a wing. Its flattened tail structure would provide=20
directional stability and control. A minute or so before landing, skids woul=
d=20
extend and the LRV would settle onto a stretch of dry lakebed.


The engineering study does not describe how the LRV, which would weigh just=20
over 17,000 pounds without its crew, weapons, fuel and stores, would then=20
have been returned to the launch pad. One possibility, suggested by the=20
inclusion of a high-pressure helium storage tank, is that it would have been=
=20
ferried by a heavy-lift balloon, as shown in the drawing on the opposite=20
page. While the LRV would not have had sufficient helium to inflate a=20
balloon, the tank would have had sufficient capacity for replenishing the=20
lift-bag to permit trips of several thousands of miles.


In 1997, as part of its effort to debunk the Roswell alien landing myth, the=
=20
Air Force revealed details of several heavy-lift balloon research projects.=20
Among those were experiments in which 15,000-pound payloads were lifted to=20
170,000 ft. While not specifically acknowledging the LRV by name, an Air=20
Force spokesman conceded that during the Cold War it routinely used=20
high-altitude balloons to lift unusual airframes for aerodynamic tests.=20
Airframe tests of secret planes were most likely the cause of=20
still-unexplained UFO sightings. And a balloon-lifted LRV test flight would=20
certainly match the classic UFO reports of a silvery disc hovering motionles=
s=20
in the sky, then silently shooting upward.


Crash Debris
The engineering study obtained by POPULAR MECHANICS contains language that=20
describes a re-entry heating test that, at the time, could have been=20
accomplished by only a high-altitude drop of a flying prototype. A further=20
indication that the LRV flew comes from a retired Air Force contractor. He=20
tells PM he personally saw a craft fitting the description of the LRV at a=20
Florida base that he had been visiting on unrelated business in the late=20
1960s. However, what is by far the most compelling evidence that the LRV, or=
=20
a flying prototype, was actually built comes from Australia.


In 1975, Jean Fraser found an odd bit of honeycomb-like debris on her=20
family=E2=80=99s ranch south of Brisbane. The area is in the vicinity of wha=
t was=20
then a secret Australian testing range where the British and Americans=20
conducted some of their most secret atomic experiments. Since the LRV was to=
=20
carry a small nuclear reactor to provide electricity for flight systems, it=20
is conceivable that tests would have been conducted at this isolated locatio=
n.


Local legends claim the honeycomb was debris from a flying saucer that=20
exploded over the test range in 1966. The remaining pieces were supposedly=20
collected by the military and returned to the United States aboard a U.S. Ai=
r=20
Force plane. Interested in learning if the debris was extraterrestrial, Dick=
=20
Smith, a Sydney businessman, arranged for the University of New South Wales=20
to perform a chemical analysis.=20

The debris contained minerals commonly found in aircraft-grade fiberglass=20
panels. Based on the university=E2=80=99s report, the Mufon UFO Journal, the=
 monthly=20
magazine of the Mutual UFO Network (www.mufon.com), debunked rumors of the=20
debris having any alien origin.


=20
=20
The materials recovered from the Fraser farm bear a striking resemblance to=20
LRV engineering drawings.=20
Unexplained Residue
PM became interested in revisiting the Australian debris analysis when we=20
noticed a similarity between a photograph of the mystery honeycomb and a=20
cross-section diagram in the LRV engineering study.


We=E2=80=99ve put the two images next to each other (left). Let us know what=
 you=20
think.


We were also curious about two points that were raised in the university=E2=
=80=99s=20
chemical analysis, but not pursued once it was determined that the debris=20
originated on Earth. The first has to do with the presence of small amounts=20
of titanium. Titanium is a strong, lightweight metal used extensively in=20
spacecraft. While some fiberglass products also contain titanium, it is not=20
in the chemical form found in the debris.


The second curiosity has to do with chemical residues. Those found on the=20
honeycomb were similar to those typically found in the vicinity of=20
high-temperature chemical explosions. A possible explanation for such an=20
explosion can be found in LRV engineering drawings. Like the German Me 163=20
rocket plane, the main engine of the LRV was designed to burn hypergolic=20
fuel, highly reactive fluids that can explode on contact, releasing=20
tremendous amounts of energy. Plans show that the LRV would have carried 937=
5=20
pounds of nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine.


In Germany, landing Me 163s were plagued by on-board fires, caused by the=20
sloshing of a type of hypergolic fuel in mostly empty fuel tanks. According=20
to the design study, the tanks aboard the LRV could never be completely=20
emptied either, making accidents like those aboard Me 163s all but=20
inevitable. LRV project managers would have been well aware of this unique=20
danger, as one of the members of the Wright-Patterson aeronautical research=20
team was Rudi Opitz, one of Germany=E2=80=99s first Me 163 test pilots.


LRV documents released thus far tell only part of the story. But in time, th=
e=20
secrecy on progress reports, construction drawings and perhaps even=20
operational records will expire and we will be able to tell the rest of the=20
story. Perhaps they will reveal that the LRV remained a general=E2=80=99s pi=
pe dream,=20
a multimillion-dollar paper plane that never took flight. Or they may tell=20
the story of the most astounding adventure in the history of flight.

=20

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America's Nuclear Flying Saucer

In 1949, the biggest black hole in the universe wasn=E2=80=99t in space,=
 but across 
the Bering Strait. Stretching across 12 time zones, the Unio=
n of Soviet 
Socialist Republics was, as Winston Churchill would so memor=
ably describe it, 
=E2=80=9Ca riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigm=
a.=E2=80=9D The few things that most 
people knew about life behind the I=
ron Curtain seemed to be pieces of an 
incomprehensible puzzle. For the h=
andful of intelligence experts who saw how 
the pieces fit, the =E2=80=
=9Cworkers=E2=80=99 paradise=E2=80=9D presented a clear and present danger <=
BR>to the American way of life. What the intelligence community knew, and mo=
st 
people did not, was that in the final frantic hours of World War II,=20=
the 
Soviet army had hastily raided Germany=E2=80=99s most advanced weapo=
ns research 
laboratories. And, on Aug. 29, 1949, only four years after H=
iroshima, the 
technological booty from those raids turned a country whos=
e farmers still 
used horse-drawn plows into a nuclear superpower.



The fireball of the communist atomic bomb cast a sinister new light on a=
n 
event that previously seemed quite inconsequential. In the summer of 1=
945, an 
unusual rumor had begun to circulate within the intelligence div=
ision of the 
European Command. During interrogations, captured German ai=
rcraft engineers 
referred to an extraordinarily fast rocket plane under=20=
development at a 
secret base in Bavaria. Unlike theMesserschmitt Me 163=20=
rocket planes that had 
begun to attack Allied bombers in the last months=
 of the war, this aircraft 
had an odd-looking curved wing that blended i=
nto its fuselage. The 
aerodynamic advantage of this configuration had be=
en known to American 
designers for more than a decade. It created more l=
ift than a standard wing, 
especially at low speeds, and provided more in=
ternal capacity for carrying 
bombs. In the early days of the war, the U.=
S. Navy had briefly experimented 
with circular wing design for those ver=
y reasons.=20



Anticipating that the first generation of communist atomic bombs would b=
e as 
heavy as those America had dropped on Japan, it seemed reasonable t=
o U.S. 
defense planners that the Soviet air force, which then lacked a n=
uclear 
bomber, would try to adapt German disc technology. The United Sta=
tes was, 
after all, doing exactly the same thing with the V-2s and Nazi=20=
rocket 
scientists it had spirited away in Operation Paper Clip.





In our July 1997 cover story, =E2=80=9CRoswell Plus 50,=E2=80=9D POPULAR=
 MECHANICS detailed 
how Air Force interestin duplicating Nazi technology=
 led to two American 
flying disc projects. Project Silver Bug sought to=20=
build a vertical takeoff 
and landing aircraft. Project Pye Wacket was to=
 create small discs for use as 
air-to-air missiles. Documents declassifi=
ed since then point to a third 
secret project, a 40-ft. =E2=80=9Cflying=20=
saucer=E2=80=9D designed to rain nuclear 
destruction on the Soviet Union=
 from 300 miles in space.





The official designation for America=E2=80=99s nuclear flying saucer was=
 the 
Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV). It was designed by engineers at t=
he Los 
Angeles Division of North American Aviation, under a contract wit=
h the U.S. 
Air Force. The project was managed out of Wright-Patterson Ai=
r Force Base, in 
Dayton, Ohio, where German engineers who had worked on=20=
rocket plane and 
flying disc technology had been resettled.





The LRV escaped public scrutiny because it was hidden away as one of the=
 
Pentagon=E2=80=99s so-called =E2=80=9Cblack budget=E2=80=9D items=E2=
=80=94that is, a secret project that is 
incorporated into some piece of=20=
nonclassified work. On Dec. 12, 1962, 
security officers at Wright-Patter=
son classified the LRV as secret because: 
=E2=80=9CIt describes an offen=
sive weapon system.=E2=80=9D The project remained classified 
until May 1=
999, when a congressionally mandated review of old documents 
changed the=
 project=E2=80=99s status as a government secret, downgrading it to public <=
BR>information. The Department of Defense did, however, successfully seek to=
 
have the document=E2=80=99s distribution restricted to defense contract=
ors. PM 
obtained its copy as the result of a Freedom of Information Act=20=
request.





Inside The LRV

=E2=80=9CThe operational mission design is six weeks=E2=80=99 duration a=
t a nominal orbital 
altitude of 300 nautical miles, with a crew of four=20=
men,=E2=80=9D according to the 
report. The weapons bay would hold =E2=
=80=9Cfour winged weapons=E2=80=9D that could be 
either launched or deta=
ched and parked on orbit. There are repeated 
references to the LRV launc=
hing weapons-carrying clusters.





A considerable part of the design study focuses on the details of buildi=
ng a 
40-ft.-dia. airframe and strengthening it against the acceleration=20=
of 8 g=E2=80=99s 
and wind shear it would experience during launch. Howev=
er, no mention is made 
of the type of booster the disc would ride into s=
pace.





=20

Click here for detail.

Illustration by John Batchelor=20

Most likely, the LRV would have flown atop a multistage rocket, like the=
 
Saturn booster used in the Apollo moon program. The engineering study,=20=

however, suggests a more intriguing possibility. At some point, the LRV=20=
could 
have been powered by one of the nuclear rockets then under develop=
ment by the 
Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Several of these=
 rockets were in 
fact built and successfully tested in Nevada. Although=20=
the government claims 
all of its nuclear rocket program records have bee=
n declassified, a search of 
the Department of Energy (DOE) human radiati=
on experiment database indicates 
otherwise. PM has learned that 40 cu. f=
t. of records related to the human 
health effects of the nuclear rocket=20=
program, compiled between 1956 and 1975, 
are stored in a secured locatio=
n=E2=80=94Building 1001=E2=80=94at the Los Alamos National 
Laboratory in=
 Los Alamos, N.M. A DOE spokesman told PM that the only reason 
these rec=
ords would have remained classified was if they dealt with an 
operationa=
l military system.





LRV Specifications=20

Crew 4=20

Weapons 4 nuclear missiles=20

Mission Length 6 weeks=20

Dimensions=20

Diameter 40 ft.=20

Center 90 in.=20

Edges 6 in.=20

Wing 1548 sq. ft.=20

Weights=20

Launch  45,000 lb.=20

Landing 33,395 lb.=20

Empty  17,042 lb.=20

Engines=20

Booster Chemical/Nuclear=20

Main Hypergolic/Nuclear=20

Capsule Solid fuel=20

Electric Power 7 kw (thermal nuclear)=20

Designer  North American Aviation=20

The four-man crew would ride a wedge-shaped capsule built inside the LRV=
. The 
capsule would divide the front portion of the disc into separate w=
ork and 
off-duty areas. The nuclear-tipped rockets would be stored in th=
e rear 
segments.





Although these rockets were not called multiple independent reentry vehi=
cles 
(MIRVs), they match the description of these multiple-warhead-deliv=
ery 
devices, which were later banned by disarmament treaties. An MIRV-eq=
uipped 
LRV would have been able to eliminate the war-making capabilities=
 of the 
Soviet Union, China and North Korea at the push of a button.





In normal operations, the capsule would function as the LRV=E2=80=99s fl=
ight control 
center. In an emergency, the crew could fire the capsule=
=E2=80=99s independent 
50,000-pound-thrust solid-fuel rocket motor and r=
eturn to Earth. The 
capsule=E2=80=99s final descent would be slowed by a=
 parachute, much like the X-38 
=E2=80=9Clifeboat=E2=80=9D planned for th=
e international space station now under 
construction.





A textbook mission would conclude with the entire LRV returning to Earth=
. It 
would fire its nuclear or liquid-fueled main rocket to brake, then=20=
travel 
edge-first into the atmosphere. Its disc form would dissipate the=
 heat of 
re-entry, then act as a wing. Its flattened tail structure woul=
d provide 
directional stability and control. A minute or so before landi=
ng, skids would 
extend and the LRV would settle onto a stretch of dry la=
kebed.





The engineering study does not describe how the LRV, which would weigh j=
ust 
over 17,000 pounds without its crew, weapons, fuel and stores, would=
 then 
have been returned to the launch pad. One possibility, suggested b=
y the 
inclusion of a high-pressure helium storage tank, is that it would=
 have been 
ferried by a heavy-lift balloon, as shown in the drawing on t=
he opposite 
page. While the LRV would not have had sufficient helium to=20=
inflate a 
balloon, the tank would have had sufficient capacity for reple=
nishing the 
lift-bag to permit trips of several thousands of miles.





In 1997, as part of its effort to debunk the Roswell alien landing myth,=
 the 
Air Force revealed details of several heavy-lift balloon research p=
rojects. 
Among those were experiments in which 15,000-pound payloads wer=
e lifted to 
170,000 ft. While not specifically acknowledging the LRV by=20=
name, an Air 
Force spokesman conceded that during the Cold War it routin=
ely used 
high-altitude balloons to lift unusual airframes for aerodynami=
c tests. 
Airframe tests of secret planes were most likely the cause of <=
BR>still-unexplained UFO sightings. And a balloon-lifted LRV test flight wou=
ld 
certainly match the classic UFO reports of a silvery disc hovering mo=
tionless 
in the sky, then silently shooting upward.





Crash Debris

The engineering study obtained by POPULAR MECHANICS contains language th=
at 
describes a re-entry heating test that, at the time, could have been=20=

accomplished by only a high-altitude drop of a flying prototype. A furth=
er 
indication that the LRV flew comes from a retired Air Force contracto=
r. He 
tells PM he personally saw a craft fitting the description of the=20=
LRV at a 
Florida base that he had been visiting on unrelated business in=
 the late 
1960s. However, what is by far the most compelling evidence th=
at the LRV, or 
a flying prototype, was actually built comes from Austral=
ia.





In 1975, Jean Fraser found an odd bit of honeycomb-like debris on her family=E2=80=99s ranch south of Brisbane. The area is in the vicinity of w=
hat was 
then a secret Australian testing range where the British and Ame=
ricans 
conducted some of their most secret atomic experiments. Since the=
 LRV was to 
carry a small nuclear reactor to provide electricity for fli=
ght systems, it 
is conceivable that tests would have been conducted at t=
his isolated location.





Local legends claim the honeycomb was debris from a flying saucer that <=
BR>exploded over the test range in 1966. The remaining pieces were supposedl=
y 
collected by the military and returned to the United States aboard a U=
.S. Air 
Force plane. Interested in learning if the debris was extraterre=
strial, Dick 
Smith, a Sydney businessman, arranged for the University of=
 New South Wales 
to perform a chemical analysis.=20



The debris contained minerals commonly found in aircraft-grade fiberglas=
s 
panels. Based on the university=E2=80=99s report, the Mufon UFO Journa=
l, the monthly 
magazine of the Mutual UFO Network (www.mufon.com), debun=
ked rumors of the 
debris having any alien origin.





=20

=20

The materials recovered from the Fraser farm bear a striking resemblance=
 to 
LRV engineering drawings.=20

Unexplained Residue

PM became interested in revisiting the Australian debris analysis when w=
e 
noticed a similarity between a photograph of the mystery honeycomb and=
 a 
cross-section diagram in the LRV engineering study.





We=E2=80=99ve put the two images next to each other (left). Let us know=20=
what you 
think.





We were also curious about two points that were raised in the university=
=E2=80=99s 
chemical analysis, but not pursued once it was determined tha=
t the debris 
originated on Earth. The first has to do with the presence=20=
of small amounts 
of titanium. Titanium is a strong, lightweight metal us=
ed extensively in 
spacecraft. While some fiberglass products also contai=
n titanium, it is not 
in the chemical form found in the debris.





The second curiosity has to do with chemical residues. Those found on th=
e 
honeycomb were similar to those typically found in the vicinity of high-temperature chemical explosions. A possible explanation for such an explosion can be found in LRV engineering drawings. Like the German Me 163=
 
rocket plane, the main engine of the LRV was designed to burn hypergoli=
c 
fuel, highly reactive fluids that can explode on contact, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. Plans show that the LRV would have carried 9=
375 
pounds of nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine.





In Germany, landing Me 163s were plagued by on-board fires, caused by th=
e 
sloshing of a type of hypergolic fuel in mostly empty fuel tanks. Acco=
rding 
to the design study, the tanks aboard the LRV could never be compl=
etely 
emptied either, making accidents like those aboard Me 163s all but=
 
inevitable. LRV project managers would have been well aware of this uni=
que 
danger, as one of the members of the Wright-Patterson aeronautical r=
esearch 
team was Rudi Opitz, one of Germany=E2=80=99s first Me 163 test=20=
pilots.





LRV documents released thus far tell only part of the story. But in time=
, the 
secrecy on progress reports, construction drawings and perhaps eve=
n 
operational records will expire and we will be able to tell the rest o=
f the 
story. Perhaps they will reveal that the LRV remained a general=
=E2=80=99s pipe dream, 
a multimillion-dollar paper plane that never took=
 flight. Or they may tell 
the story of the most astounding adventure in=20=
the history of flight.



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