The Real Flying Saucer

Or, text, "realengineering" to 500 500



Patreon:
Facebook:
Instagram:
Reddit:
Twitter:
Discord:


Credits:
Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus


References:

Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.


Songs:
Computer Wiz - Marten Moses
Sail - Dye O
Solving It - Frank Jonsson
A Trip To The Moon - Aiolos Rue

Thank you to my patreon supporters: Adam Flohr, Henning Basma, Hank Green, William Leu, Tristan Edwards, Ian Dundore, John & Becki Johnston. Nevin Spoljaric, Jason Clark, Thomas Barth, Johnny MacDonald, Stephen Foland, Alfred Holzheu, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Binghaith, Brent Higgins, Dexter Appleberry, Alex Pavek, Marko Hirsch, Mikkel Johansen, Hibiyi Mori. Viktor Józsa, Ron Hochsprung

[gegeji]

Military: We need something that can take over the role of helicopter and supersonic jet at the same time.
Canadian Engineers: Ayyyy lmao let's build a ufo!

[sashali]

Rest of the world: *uses helicopters*
Canada: *CIRCLE*

Edit: surprised they didn’t make a maple leaf

Edit 2: I stand corrected

[jmlkinc]

This title is peak clickbait while simultaneously being 100% accurate.

[F.ALK_]

1:18
Ah yes the two genders: Men and Weapons

[Evan-vjns]

Could you imagine being a rice farmer and a ufo just zooms by at 3x the speed of sound

[darthtrump]

Avrocar engineer: nope sorry, the saucer cant be done, after numerous tests and research we concluded it needs a pair of tiny wings to work properly


Military guys: UFO saucer or nothing, this shit aint debatable

[mrdeurknopp]

That's a U.F.O.E, an unidentified flying object eh

[d.b.]

Engineers: "So this how the design would work"
Financial backers: "Okay...well, what if we did that, but not"
"Then it wouldn't work"
"Well, it's cheaper, so try it anyway"

(1 year later) "It's not working"
"Well, that was a waste of our money, you should have given us a design that would work"

[TheBenduOrder]

Canada should have consulted with Aliens, just like the United States did couple years later

[Platyfurmany]

Just as Jack Northrop's flying wing couldn't fly without fly-by-wire technology (now seen in the B-2 flying wing bomber), maybe it's time we revisit this attempt at advanced engineering before it's time.

[mateuspinesi]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

[ChaosMagnet]

Dad was an engineer, and a huge aerospace geek, and he talked about Avro a lot. We live only a couple of hours away from where that Avro facility used to be, and back in the late 80s, he took me to see it. Unfortunately, all that remained then was a vast field full of weeds and a few decrepit outbuildings, surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire. We couldn’t get anywhere close at all. Still, I’m glad I got to see the place where so many innovations were born.

[archdukefranzferdinand]

I remember seeing this in the museum when I was a kid. I thought that the museum was so boring, but damn I wish I could go back

[rouymalic]

1950s: I bet there will flying car's in the future
Avrocar: *_Laughs in secrecy_*

[bighaverlegend]

It didn’t work because it wasn’t powered by Maple syrup

[gustavgnoettgen]

*Idea comes up
Prototype: "USAF"
*Idea fails
Title: "Canadian"

[son]

When they test stuff like this in Area 51, you would literally think it’s aliens

[Swarmie]

Kid: hey mom can we get a helicopter?
Mom: no, we already have a helicopter at home.
Helicopter at home:

[cosmicatrophy]

I'm Canadian and I've never heard of this lol. Thanks for that

[arkadeepkundu]

Rest of the world: *Helicopters?*
Canada: *Circular*
Rest of the world: *Hovercrafts?*
Canada: *Did I fookin stutter, eh? I said CIRCULAR!*