Viktor Schauberger

kept out of the entire SS disc development programs for security reasons and the fact that the SS was a
state-within-a-state with its own production facilities, war material, scientists and technicians, slave
workforce, and the knowledge of secret Third Reich military bases outside Germany where these discs
were both tested and stored.
Among those held, Viktor Schauberger became the leader of most interest due to his highly
unconventional use of liquid vortex technology which was perfected while he was in custody at
Mauthausen. Originally designed for an odd bio-submarine, the strange Repulsin discoid motors
were to be adapted to aircraft. Heinkel was the first to receive the results of these early discoid tests but
refused to act on it. A year after the Repulsin Model A motor was being studied one of Heinkel‟s own
engineers named Rudolf Schriever proposed his own "Flugkreisel" (Flying Gyro) that utilized
conventional jet engines instead of the Repulsin discoid motor. His design was taken from him and
handed over to a team of scientists for further study and the construction of a large flying prototype. The
team consisted of Dr. Richard Miethe, Klaus Habermohl, and an Italian- Dr. Guiseppe Belluzzo, who
had come up with his own design for a jet powered round flying bomb- the Turboproietti.
Meanwhile, BMW started work on a design very similar to Schriever’s Flugkreisel but utilizing the
company‟s own BMW 003 jet engines. These machines, called „Flugelrads" (Winged Wheels) were not
really true disc aircraft but jet autogyros that used a standard BMW 003 with a Strahlrohr (Jet pipe)
deflector to power a multi-blade disc rotor. These craft were built on a much smaller scale than
Schriever‟s Flugkreisel so work proceeded from 1941-45 with construction of prototypes beginning in
1943. Instability, however, was never really solved in the earlier designs. One disc, however, a BMW
Fluglerad II V-2 possibly achieved flight in April 1945.
Schriever‟s own disc began to take shape in 1943 as well and flew under jet power provided by three
attached special kerosene-burning jet engines driving the disc rotor as well as two kerosene jets on the
body for forward thrust and horizontal stability.
Flight characteristics were good but then the SS decided to abruptly drop Schriever‟s jet-fan design in
favor of Miethe‟s version that eliminated the large disc rotor blades driven by jet engines for
Schauberger‟s liquid vortex engine, but on a larger scale. With Schauberger released back to Austria
in 1944 by the SS, the Miethe disc took to the air that same year over the Baltic.
At the same time a private venture with official backing from Air Ministry General Udet was taking shape
in Leipzig. Arthur Sack who caught the attention of Udet way back in 1939 with his A.S.1 circular wing
flying aero model was given permission and some funding to build a manned large-scale version of his
model. Sack took up the challenge and built 4 more models of increasing size. When the A.S.5
demonstrated that the basic concept was sound construction began on the manned version in early
1944- the A.S.6. Within a month the strange largely wooden aircraft utilizing salvaged parts from a ME
BF 108 was taxiing and making attempts to fly. But this project was doomed from the start with an
underpowered engine and plagued by structural problems which meant the aircraft could hop- but never
fly.