{"id":86499,"date":"2024-04-03T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=86499"},"modified":"2023-12-29T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:32:34","slug":"the-flying-saucer-designed-to-ram-soviet-bombers-avro-canada-silver-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/03\/the-flying-saucer-designed-to-ram-soviet-bombers-avro-canada-silver-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flying Saucer Designed To Ram Soviet Bombers | Avro Canada Silver Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6l9pyaRaJ5A?si=DRSenu6MCKMyrinH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Rex&#8217;s Hangar<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Dec 29, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re taking a look at a concept &#8220;aircraft&#8221; developed in the 1950s, the Avro Canada Silver Bug &mdash; part of a long line of flying discs drawn up by designer John Frost.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Want to support the channel? Become a patreon member here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/rexshangar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/rexshangar<\/a><br \/>\nWant to join the community? Visit our Discord  &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/GMQkpeccjc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/GMQkpeccjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recommended Reading:<\/p>\n<p><em>Avrocar: Canada\u2019s Flying Saucer: The Story of Avro Canadas Secret Projects<\/em> by Bill Zuk (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/41Mh3tV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/41Mh3tV<\/a>)<br \/>\n<em>Secret Projects: Flying Saucer Aircraft<\/em> by Bill Rose and Tony Buttler (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tG4RhB\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tG4RhB<\/a>)<br \/>\n<em>Final Development Summary Report for Project 1794<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rex&#8217;s Hangar Published Dec 29, 2023 Today we&#8217;re taking a look at a concept &#8220;aircraft&#8221; developed in the 1950s, the Avro Canada Silver Bug &mdash; part of a long line of flying discs drawn up by designer John Frost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,13,663],"tags":[123,145,108,140,174],"class_list":["post-86499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-aircraft","tag-airforce","tag-coldwar","tag-design","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mv9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86500,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86499\/revisions\/86500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}