Thursday August 28, 2008
Brit firm to demo serious flying robo-saucer in 2009
Lewis Page
The Register
A small British company developing a unique form of hovering aircraft says it will soon demonstrate a new and much more serious version of its technology.
GFS Projects of Peterborough was registered in 2002, following early efforts by former hovercraft engineer Geoff Hatton to develop a working "flying saucer" aircraft based on the Coanda effect. (GFS stands for Geoff's Flying Saucers.) The Reg spoke to GFS marketing chief Mark Broughton this morning, who gave us a run-through on the "Fenstar 50" autonomous unmanned saucer which the company hopes to have flying in the first half of next year.
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