{"id":191451,"date":"2009-08-15T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/flying-saucers-news\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T14:14:00","slug":"flying-saucers-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/15\/flying-saucers-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Saucers News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img11.imageshack.us\/img11\/7136\/getassett.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>Nothing particularly sinister or Area 51 here, it&#8217;s just that the former GFS (Geoff&#8217;s Flying Saucer, Ltd), now  Aesir, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/07\/30\/330339\/aesir-unveils-hoder-uav-for-resupply-missions.html\">continuing to develop their Coanda effect VTOL UAV<\/a>, which uses a blower and the Coanda effect (earlier post <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/neat-tech-coanda-effect-aircraft.html\">here<\/a>) to get the desired characteristics, has come up with a 1000kg payload concept, the Hoder.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A242aa365-d9e3-42e0-9d2f-c9a374b140f0\">here<\/a>, and there is a video below.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be stable, and it has an advantage over a ducted fan in that the entire bottom of the aircraft could be used to hand sensors or weapons.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KXVtUCABiv8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KXVtUCABiv8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing particularly sinister or Area 51 here, it&#8217;s just that the former GFS (Geoff&#8217;s Flying Saucer, Ltd), now Aesir, is continuing to develop their Coanda effect VTOL UAV, which uses a blower and the Coanda effect (earlier post here) to get the desired characteristics, has come up with a 1000kg payload concept, the Hoder. You &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025,1152,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology","category-uav","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}