Cruising In Style

by Jeffrey Wolf
A man in Michigan believes he has come up with something that will put a little zip into your daily commute.

Clinton Township, Michigan - A Michigan man has designed a flying saucer that he says one day could transport you back and forth to work. It’s a flying machine that has been in the works for 30 years.

Alfie Carrington has a bagful and a brainful of very big ideas, especially the XV7H. “That will cruise 700 miles an hour. I won’t go to mach speed, too controversial,” said Carrington.

He doesn’t like to say flying saucer because the phrase pushes eyebrows even higher.

Image: A model of the vehicle Alfie Carrington says will be in use in the future

Located in a commercial storage complex near his Clinton Township home, resting precariously on milk crates and cinderblocks, is the fiberglass mock up of Carrington’s aircraft.

“This is the outer disc right here and it rotates in one direction as it draws air in through the inlet holes here. And then this is the inner disk that rotates in the opposite direction,” said Carrington.

The machine creates an electromagnetic force for lift and funneling air for directional control.

The entire bill, about $70,000 so far, has been footed by the 59-year-old dishwasher and construction worker.

He says he faces also another obstacle.

“I believe I’m being suppressed by NASA and the Energy Department,” Carrington said.

The idea was hatched 30 years ago out of Carrington’s love for science fiction.

He believes you’ll be flying his invention to work someday.

The experts say it’s impossible.

Carrington says he’d like to debate them face-to-face about his work in progress.


Author: Jeffrey Wolf

Source - http://www.9news.com/