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Monday, January 26, 2015

Upward Mobility

AcMo is a forward moving company by necessity.  Untapped revenue streams, and technological breakthroughs are found through rigorous discovery.  Sometimes these discoveries are built upon past experiments to create something greater than the original project masterminds could have ever conceived.  A fortuitous recent perusal of a stack of declassified documents has inspired AcMo to pursue a new old opportunity.  In the off chance those documents are still classified, and the postal service sent them to us by mistake, I’m keeping the source material private until I can verify their status.


The original Avrocar project ended in extreme failure, but AcMo will prevail where those before us could not.  We are going to develop flying saucers capable of reaching and returning from space for the masses.
Despite how it looks, the pilot's feet are NOT on the ground.

The plan is quite simple.  We are going to take the best elements from the failed Avrocar test saucer and combine them with the design of the Dream Chaser* space vehicle with a small twist.




This thing better do what it is supposed to do or AcMo will be in trouble.


Once we have figured out how to shape the craft to be a mix of Dream Chaser and Avrocar, we will add the AcMo touch to make it perfect.  I don’t yet know exactly how this will work because we just started running the simulations this morning, but I am confident the team will have a solution soon.

The missing feature that the Avrocar car team couldn’t have known about at the time, but would have made actual flight possible is a folding wing design similar to the F-14 Tomcat.  I believe that a 2-axis folding wing system installed on a saucer shaped airframe will provide low speed lift and maneuverability while the streamlined harmonious saucer shape with wings folded will provide low drag, high altitude, high speed operation with less pilot input and control.  We are essentially making a giant scale replica of Fred with jet engines instead of twin turbochargers.  We may add turbochargers at some point during development to keep the theme consistent.  The entire plan is fluid at this point and could change at any moment.



Folding wings are still cool.

It may seem like this project has an improbable chance of success, but I feel confident about this one.  I already know the F-14 can fly, I’m reasonably certain the Dream Chaser will fly, so I don’t see why combining two mostly known quantities to the Avrocar concept wouldn’t work, especially since we are basically stealing the idea from nature.  It is not like the Egyptians could have known before building the great pyramids that the process would work.

IF AcMo can do what it does best and succeed against all odds, the era of flying vehicles for the masses will begin.  We will be responsible for the ultimate disruption of the aviation industry as a result of our pioneering work.  Anyone betting against us will be left on the ground yearning for his or her own personal flying apparatus.  We’re going to need a good name for this new vehicle, one that sparks the imagination and strikes fear into our enemies.  The AcMo Flying Space Saucer will be known as the AFSS Pterodactyl™.  Of course all of our past and ongoing development work with Fred will play a role in the success of this project.  With Fred, we have a bird that can illuminate the path forward and upward.  None of those other projects can claim that.  The future of AcMo’s space travel division looks bright.














*We are taking a huge leap of faith by starting our development work before the Dream Chaser has proven itself to be a viable flying craft.  I don’t believe this project will work combining two failed craft with one successful one.  There aren’t enough positives in an equation like that.


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