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Jun. 09, 1959 - Britain's Flying Saucer Triumph. At a Saunders Roe yard at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Sunday Britain's Flying Saucer, three times rose a foot above the ground and hovered for half an hour. The flight was a triumph got the men who see this hoverplane, officially the SRN 1, as the Cross Channel ferry of the future and later as a giant ocean going hoverliner. The secret of the saucer is a horizontal fan, which provides a cushion of compressed air supporting it as it travels above the sea or ground. The first saucer is only a two seater, 34 feet long and 26 ft. wide. It is the invention of Mr. Christopher Cockerill. Photo shoes: Pictured with a model of Britain's flying saucer, the SRN1 are (L to R) Peter Lamb, chief test pilot, Mr. Christopher Cockerill, the inventor, and Mr. R. Stanton Jones, chief designer of Saunders Roe

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