[ArtieBob]

I don’t know exactly where to begin, but the answer is No! No real “flying disc” of extremely advanced design came out of the death throes of Nazi Germany. The Germans had areas of technology where they were the most advanced and others where they had fallen behind during the period from 1939-1945. The Germans, then, nor now, had any magic “foo-foo” that inherently gave them an entree to technological superiority. It basically comes down to how much resources in man material and money one has and how you spend it. Where the Germans concentrated their resources, they had generally good technology, but in very few areas were they as far ahead of GB and USA as Third Reichophiles would have you believe. In the areas where the allies were ahead, it was because they in general had more engineers, more development facilities and had focused their effort.

As to flying Discs. There was an extremely large and well organized Allied effort to evaluate and exploit the state-of-the-art in Nazi Germany immediately before and following capitulation. This was broad based, looking at every area from raw materials to finished products and every stage in between. Unlike many seem to think most of this material was not kept secret, at least here in the USA, and by 1946 most of it was available as public domain (even though it had been highly classified when held by the Nazis). Information on aerodynamics, structures, power plants and were and still are fairly readily accessible. The point is, after the initial period of interest immediately following the war, there was really very little interest in the subject for a period of 10 to 15 years ( I know, this was the time period when I began my research). I was so happy when in 1954, I found a single book that had as it’s subject, Luftwaffe aircraft (incidentally, it was published in Japan).
I am wandering from discs. As an aerodynamic configuration, they are well suited to Frisbees. The Canadians actually tried to build a full scale aircraft in this configuration, it was not very successful. There are actually a few aircraft in the West (and perhaps the East) that have seen very little light of day. Those that are interested enough can find some information and it seems that none are basically round. If there were any special aerodynamic characteristics of the flying disc that could be applied to aircraft applications, more people would have built and flown them. It all goes back to my original premise is that no nationality has any “magic” that automatically makes them technically superior. There is the occasional exceptional genius that sees things as no one else was able to before, but even these guys usually build on the efforts of their predecessor. Ten or fifteen years from now, when the massive focusing of resources now occurring in China bear fruit, people possibly will wonder at their technological prowess in the areas focused on.

Best regards,

Artie Bob