The Discopter Air Taxi Flying Saucer

Alexander Weygers was a polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, and author. In the years leading up to WW2, Weygers designed what he believed to be a practical flying saucer for large scale human transport. He received a U.S. patent for his Discopter design in 1944 and it has inspired others working on saucer-shaped hovering aircraft to this day. The prototype...