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DR. RICHARD MIETHE During the early 1940’s Dr. Richard Miethe produced many different Flugscheibe (Flight Disc) designs for the SS in a concentrated effort to improve upon or entirely replace Rudolf Schriever’s failing disc-fan Flugkreisel (Flight Gyro) prototype. He was not alone as Schriever’s original design was handed over to Dr. Miethe, Klaus Habermohl, Dr. Giuseppe Belluzzo, and six other unnamed engineers under " Projekt Flugkreisel"- all producing several radical designs based on emerging engine technologies which burned alternative fuels the SS was pioneering which included experimental: grain alcohol fueled rocket engines, LOX turbines, hydrogen peroxide turbines, gelatinous organic/metallic-fueled total reaction turbines, and coal dust burning ramjets. DR. KARL NOWAK'S INFLUENCE But perhaps the most unorthodox propulsion system yet incorporated into one of Miethe’s designs was based on the work of Austrian physicist Dr. Karl Nowak which involved oxygen and nitrogen. The power plant involved here burned nothing really but air. The SS achieved this by building a reciprocating engine which used atmospheric oxygen to oxidize atmospheric nitrogen. Very intense electrical voltage sparks were needed to produce temperatures near 50,000 degrees within the combustion chamber- with the same natural effect as lightning. Only the Air Engine also injected super-cold helium directly into the combustion chamber for the dual purpose of cooling the chamber and also causing a tremendous expansion during heating, thus aiding in the driving force of the engine itself. POSTWAR PATENT This design which Bruno Schwenteit patented postwar was claimed to be the Miethe-Schriever disc so often labeled the mystery V-7 (Versuchs, or "Prototype" Seven). Schwenteit also claimed the disc was actually constructed during World War II but no photographic evidence has surfaced to prove that. Miethe’s official Flugkreisel replacement was built in Breslau and took to the air on April 17, 1944 over the Baltic. THE PATENT MODERN AMATUER GERMAN REPLICA PHOTO ONLINE SOURCES BOOK REFERENCES
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