Richard Miethe, Dr

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Richard Miethe, Dr


Several book and article illustrators tried to portrait the craft claimed by the "inventors" or witnesses of Nazi flying saucers just following the descriptions provided by them. Results were often quite exotic and far from the original words, likely to try to make even more visually-appealing the story about a fantastic Nazi super-weapon.

In the issue of September 6, 1952 the Italian weekly "Tempo" published the first of a four-part article devoted to the German secret weapons of World War II and signed by the Italian journalist Luigi Romersa (who already wrote an article in 1947 about an alleged atomic test ran by Germany on the Baltic coast).

An additional article from a given Jacques Alain was published as an introduction. Actually it was nearly the same article published the earlier June by the French daily "France Soir" about the claims of Richard Miethe on his fantastic V-7.

Such a "new" article was originally published in the French magazine "La Marche du Monde", together with one picture of the alleged Miethe disc.

More or less the same article was then reprinted on the French weekly "C'est la Vie" of August 7, 1952, where a second picture was presented.

It is very likely this is the ultimate source of "Tempo" magazine set of three pictures which was introduced as the visual proof of the German saucers flight-tested over the Baltic sea on Aprill 17, 1944.

Besides the original low printing quality, the pictures look quite blurred and no detail is clearly visible. There is a strong feeling these pictures could be post-1947 "flying saucer" photographs used as purported proofs of a possible journalist scoop.

Draft drawings of the alleged Miethe disc have been often presented as "technical documents" sustaining the reality of the "German saucers". Actually they were just artist renderings of the claims reported by newspapers.





Italian journalist Luigi Romersa (who already wrote an article in 1947 about an alleged atomic test ran by Germany on the Baltic coast)


Possible model for the claimed 42-meter large "flying saucer" developed by Miethe






Aviation expert Hans Justus Meier says the descriptions reported by the press in the early '50s are generaly pure nonsense from an aerodynamic and technical point of view. In fact it would have been a self-destructive craft due to the claimed placement of its jet engines. More, its weights appear completely unbalanced.





Dr. Richard Miethe
Retrieved from Grey Falcon

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An interesting section from
'Introduction to Secret German Flying Discs of World War Two'
published by the German Research Project:

This V-7 project was headed by Dr. Heinrich Richard Miethe, known in the literature simply as "Dr. Richard Miethe". He was assisted by the Italian scientist, Dr. Giuseppe Bellonzo, a specialist in jet engines and metallurgy. Dr. Miethe produced many different saucer-like designs during the early 1940's with many different power plants. Some seemed to combine characteristics of saucers and flying wings.

But more exotic designs existed. One was based on a completely new type of jet fuel invented for the V-7 by an Austrian physicist, Dr. Karl Nowak, German Patent #905-847, March 16, 1943. Another design involved mounting an A-4 (V-2) engine underneath the V-7 giving it an estimated top speed of  4,000 km.per hour.

The most interesting engine design, however, may have involved burning nothing but "air" itself. There is a rumor that the Germans tested a reciprocating engine, (like an automobile engine), which used atmospheric oxygen to oxidize atmospheric nitrogen. This was said to  have involved very high voltage sparks to produce temperatures near 50,000 degrees within the combustion chamber. A similar event occurs with lightning. Lightning simply burns the air surrounding it leaving a vacuum which collapses suddenly upon itself producing the sound we call thunder. This engine was to do the same but, in addition to this, was to inject super-cold liquid helium directly into the combustion chamber. Helium is an inert gas. It does not burn. For years claims by the Germans that the V-7 was powered by helium were cited as evidence that the whole concept was a hoax. Now, after learning of the work of  Dr. Nowak, we know that this very cold liquid could have been injected into this  combustion chamber for purposes of cooling that combustion chamber and also to causing a tremendous expansion as it was heated thus aiding in production of motive force of the engine itself.

Photographed in Arizona 1947


Avro Omega/Spade disc project led by Dr. Richard Miethe

Dr. Richard Miethe
Retrieved from Grey Falcon

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MIETHE ELEKTRISCHE LUFT TURBINE
UNMANNED V-7
by Rob Arndt

During the early 1940's Dr. Richard Miethe produced many different Flugscheiben (Flight Disc) designs for the SS in a concentrated effort to improve or replace Rudolf Schriever's failing disc-fan Flugkreisel 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 - all producing several radical designs based on the emerging engine technologies burning 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.


Miethe's official Flugkreisel replacement was built in Breslau and took to the air in April 1944 over the Baltic.

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.

Japanese enigmatic V-7 depiction


V-7 Art




Bruno Schwenteit: Electro-Turbine Disc Aircraft
This craft was developed by Miethe & Schriever for the Nazis during World War II:
German Patent # 2,147,668
Elektrische-Luft Turbine und Raumschiff







German Patent # 2,529,664
Flugkörper mit Kombiniertem Elektro-Turbo-Antrieb



MIETHE ELEKTRISCHE LUFT TURBINE UNMANNED V-7 by Rob Arndt
Retrieved from Grey Falcon


Note: Fix patent images and add Patent PDF's

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Related - Dr Peter Plichta

The Düsseldorf chemist and mathematician Dr Peter Plichta is the author of the book "God's Secret Formula" (Element Books) which has just been published in England and the United States. The book deals with the famous Euler formula for unit circle which connects the transcendental mathematical constants e, i and p with the numbers +1, -1 and 0. The astonishing thing, however, is that Dr Plichta can also use his concepts of cyclic mathematics to effect a revolution in space travel. He has already received several patents for the construction of a disc-shaped reusable spacecraft which will be fuelled by the diesel oils of silicon. The special feature of these homologue substances of carbon is that they do not only burn with oxygen, but also with nitrogen. Such a spacecraft can namely lie on the atmosphere, inhale its air and thus do without the standard oxidation tank.

In 1933 the chemist Alfred Stock published his book "Hydrides of Boron and Silicon" in the United States. During and following the First World War he worked at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany and showed that silicon-hydrogen compounds could be synthesised. Because the element silicon is listed in the periodic table below the element carbon, this result was actually expected. Stock managed to reach a chain length of 4 silicon atoms, with the first two silanes being gaseous, the third and fourth liquid. All these silanes are very highly prone to self-ignition.

In 1970 Peter Plichta disproved the textbook theory that the higher silanes are unstable. One of his achievements was to create a mixture of silanes with the chain lengths 5 to 10 (Si5H12 to Si10H22). He also managed to separate the oil into the individual silanes by of means gas chromatic analysis. This showed the surprising result that silanes with a chain length of over 7 silicon atoms will no longer ignite spontaneously and can thus be used for commercial purposes.

Silicon has already made a significant contribution to our century as a means of rectifying alternating currents, and more importantly in the replacement of radio tubes by transistors; and, of course, no computer could function without memory chips made of silicon. Its importance can be seen in chemistry, too. Silicon oils, silicon-based plastics and newly developed ceramics, e.g. cerane, have finally arrived and they are here to stay.

It has been known since 1924 that nitrogen at a temperature of 1400 oC reacts with powder silicon to form silicon-nitride while emitting heat. This material can resist temperatures of up to 1900 oC, indicating a very high bonding strength in the molecule. In contrast to silicon, carbon atoms cannot burn for reasons of quantum mechanics, which means that rocket fuel such as kerosene, liquid hydrogen and hydrazine in an air-intaking engine can do nothing with the 80% nitrogen contained in the air but agitate it through the engine.

Multi-stage rockets function from the mathematical point of view according to principles of rocket ascent. At the first stage of the launch they have to lift their whole weight with the power of fuel combustion. Because they quickly lose weight because of the spent fuel, they then accelerate although the power of the thrust remains the same. The discarded stages are burned in the atmosphere, which can only be described as a ridiculous waste of money. The Space Shuttle was intended to make space travel less costly; but actually the opposite has happened. Just as the invention of the wheel made all human transport easier, a circular spacecraft will some day soon replace the linear design of current multi-stage rockets. We are all familiar with the elegance with which a disc or a Frisbee is borne by the air through which it flies.

Peter Plichta got the idea of constructing a disc in which jet-turbines attached to shafts would drive two ring-shaped blade rings rotating in opposite directions. This will cause the disc to be suspended by the air just like a helicopter. The craft can then be driven sideways by means of a drop-down rocket engine. When a speed of over 200 km/h has been reached, the turbines for the blade rings will be switched off and covered to enhance the aerodynamic features of the shape. The craft will now be borne by the up-draught of the air, just like an aircraft is. This will also mean that the critical power required for rocket ascent will not be necessary. When the spacecraft is orbiting the planet, the N2/O2 mixture of the air will first be fed in through a drop-down air intake when the craft is still at a low altitude of 30 km (1 % air pressure). This will be conducted to the rocket motor and the craft will thus accelerate to a speed of 5000-8000 km/hour. This is where a standard rocket jettisons its first stage, because by then about 75% of the fuel has already been used up.

The disc on the other hand will continue to accelerate to 20,000 km/h and will thus reach an altitude of approx. 50 km (1 per thousand of air pressure). The speed will increase as the air pressure drops, so that the process can be continued until an altitude of approx. 80 kilometres and 25,000 km/h can be maintained. In order to reach the required speed of 30,000 km/h and an altitude of around 300 km, only a single measure of oxidation agent will be needed at the end.

In the hot combustion chamber silanes decompose spontaneously into hydrogen and silicon radicals. The hydrogen is burned by the oxygen in the air and water formed. Because molecular nitrogen is very tightly bonded, it must be preheated and subject to catalytic dissociation. The extremely hot silicon radicals will provide additional support for this process, which will in turn lead to silicon nitride (Hf = -750 kJ) being formed. In order to burn superfluous nitrogen, larger amounts of Mg, Al or Si powder can be added to the silane oil.

When the spacecraft is returning from space the ceramic-protected underside of the disc will brake its speed to approximately 500 km/h and the covering will open again, while the blade rings will automatically begin to rotate. The jet turbines will then be started for the landing operation.

MIETHE ELEKTRISCHE LUFT TURBINE UNMANNED V-7 by Rob Arndt

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Mysteries of Czech history

Flying Saucer for Hitler (2)


Richard underground factory

In previous work we have become familiar with the view that the Second World War, Germans in the vicinity of Prague developed a prototype disc-aircraft extraordinary parameters. Hazy reports indicate that the machine had success and really lifted into the air.

Prague diskoplán - if indeed there was - had to use his power seems to bluff or pulsating engines, similar to other "secret weapon", the drone-1. The machine tested in Prague had reportedly average about seven to eight meters. The premiere launch, according to these sources place on 14 February 1944 - which coincidentally is also a special day when American bombs turned out to Prague from the first, still somewhat mysterious air raid.
The first flight, said functional model of the machine piloted by designer himself, Captain Rudolf Schriever Luftwaffe (1909-1953).

Faster than sound

Data on the outcome of the test, which cites Rudolf Lusar already mentioned, they look fantastic: the machine in a few minutes, reached more than dvanáctikilometrové above and in horizontal flight surpassed the speed of sound. Officially, it only managed a few years later, U.S. aircraft missile Bell X-1. The idea was that at the premiere of the prototype machine is loaded with full power seems somewhat unbelievable - but there was a war ... German mystery diskoplán? dealt with and the Discovery Channel. The editors argue that the V-7 developed in the Skoda factory in Pilsen. They brought also the testimony of a German engineer Andreas Epp, who suggested a similar machine itself, so he went to Prague for designers. "There I saw a remarkable object. He was above me, but he had no wings, "he recalled. British aerospace historian Henry Stevens to Discovery said in Prague that "there were 15 prototypes of custom-made SS". This was also confirmed former advisor of Benito Mussolini Luigi Romersa. Other sources say that strange objects or dissimilar aircraft then helicopter Focke Achgelis said witnesses saw the end of the war and over kbelským airport. Less than twenty years ago, found in the vicinity of underground space, perhaps for shelter staff, perhaps a command post. Maybe the airport should arise gbelském nest of resistance that would later wonder German guns started out again to conquer the "Fourth Reich".

Flying beer coaster

Historically documented but is only one German disc-shaped aircraft. AS6 is a machine from the thirties of last century. But it was just a classic airplane with a somewhat unusual circular wings, which was derisively called der Fliegende Bierdeckel (flying beer coaster). None, however, did not show a convincing performance and its development was terminated before the war. But it can not be excluded that there may just be the core of rumors about Hitler's flying saucers. For completeness, it should be noted that there are even more improbable hypothesis. According to them, the Germans also tried to test diskoplány using electromagnetic or even a kind of antigravity propulsion. In addition to Bohemia, these trials also take place in Poland. There are also claims that the Germans had somehow got to extraterrestrial technology - but it had already find ourselves with both feet in the realm of fantasy ...

Twilight of the Gods

Certain is only one thing: a state capable of operational deployment, the machine failed to follow through. As in the case superponorek, atomic bombs and other secret weapons diskoplán probably came too late for Hitler. Fortunately. The leader of the Nazis until the last moment but obviously hoping for something that had just come from Bohemia. While he sat surrounded in his Berlin bunker, kept in pristine surroundings of Prague Schörner mighty army and a fleet of modern jet aircraft Me 262 "Berlin and Prague are the twin towns of the empire untouchable," said 23rd April 1945. But the rescue took place. End of the Third Reich represented an end of flying saucers in the country. Most prisoners in underground plants was according to custom SS forever silenced and prototypes destroyed. The fate of Prague's designers diskoplán? circulating contradictory messages. At least some of whom reportedly survived and continued development of the disk plane in the U.S., Canada or the USSR. Reports of meetings with extraterrestrial flying saucers, then - according to proponents of this theory - the only Camouflage legend created to order the secret services. The romantic legend full of mystery has only one small problem: more than half a century since the war did not appear to use only diskoplán and have not been declassified or significant successful attempts to create it. This is probably the biggest weakness of the German theory diskoplánech. But it is historical fact that after the war engaged in the development diskoplánu Canadian Avro aircraft factory, supported by U.S. secret services. The project was later terminated, allegedly because of lack of performance prototypes. To this day, but not everything about this project entirely clear.

John A. Smith
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