  One of the most unusual military aircraft programs V / STOL was the Avro VZ-9
"Avrocar". Designed to be a real flying saucer, the Avrocar was one of the few
V / STOL to be developed in complete secrecy. Despite significant changes in
the design, during flight tests, the Avrocar was unable to achieve its
objectives, and the program was eventually canceled after an expenditure of 10
million US dollars between 1954 and 1961. But the concept of a lift fan, driven
by a turbojet engine is not dead, and lives today as a key component of
Lockheed X-35 Joint Strike Fighter contender. Was held in a data research and
information related to Avrocar project carried out during the Second World War,
which was directly linked to advances in aircraft that were built after it, and
correlate them with the turbo fan engines used today.
