In 1938 Romanian aeronautical engineer Henri Coandă patented what he called a lenticular aerodyne. It was a circular airframe utilizing some of the principles of aerodynamics and fluid dynamics which he had studied for decades. Coandă was living and working in Paris when the Nazis invaded in 1940. Interested in his expertise, they sought him out and he began working for the occupying regime. After WWII, a number of individuals began coming forward claiming they had worked on secret disk-shape...