Hey all,
Ive always had some odd thoughts on this photo. Its supposed to be an early Vril prototype flying saucer from Germany. It just didnt look real, till I found more photos on it, and more, and then, today, it occurred to me.
First, it is sitting on what looks like a box. It should have 3 legs that it lands on. However, in the photo, it appears to be sitting on a huge box. Today, I thought, what if that is the Marconi Vortex engine, the box with the Sphere filled with Mercury, and what if the Germans were smart enough to make this thing slide out the bottom for maintenance and refilling, etc. With it sitting on the legs, perhaps this was retracted?
Another thing I thought was odd was that the cone shape of the top isnt right. It appears to have a 'shelf area' around the top edge instead of a proper, dual angle edge like in all the photos of this version of airframe. But just a bit ago, with the photo down to the size of an icon, I noticed the 'edge' of the craft is crooked. This reminded me. Vril #1 rose up, turned sideways, hit the ground, flopped around until it finally stopped or had system failure. I wonder if this is Vril 1 and this is the bent up wreckage of the craft? That might explain why it was photographed and never kept secret, it was wreckage. That would explain why its sitting on what looks like a box. It might have landed upside down and thus the cone shape of the top of the airframe is crushed in a bit, giving it a flat edge around the upper circumference.
Anyways... Thats my thoughts.
The one cool thing about this, 'if'.... this is Vril 1, is that it 'flew' finally. (They had started the project in 1924). This would be a special day for the team in that they found out the concept flies and they needed to work on its flight controls, so it would be both a celebration as well as remorse over a crashed up prototype.