Tango01  | 22 Mar 2025 5:06 p.m. PST |
"The depth of the fascination with any kind of wonder weapon of the Second World War is demonstrated by the persistent rumor that the Nazis had developed a weapon during WW2 that could defy gravity. Under the project name "The Bell," strange myths arose about an iron device that was secretly developed during wartime and just as strangely disappeared at the end of the war…."
See here
link Armand |
| microgeorge | 23 Mar 2025 9:03 a.m. PST |
Rumor has it that is sitting in a hangar at Area 51. |
| John the OFM | 23 Mar 2025 9:54 a.m. PST |
There are those who believe in this sort of thing. I do not.
And there are those who make a decent living manufacturing and spreading nonsense like this. |
 deadhead | 23 Mar 2025 10:16 a.m. PST |
Nazi secret weapons were largely uninspired. I will make an exception for ballistic missiles of course and maybe the ramjet of the V1. But neither were going to win the war, with the payload of a fraction of any Allied bombing raid. The jets were impressive, when they worked, but even than had to land at the approach speed of any piston engine aircraft. With a dozen P51s or P47s just hovering and waiting. The Type XX1 submarine might have been a game changer, three years earlier. Butjust list the Allied "Secret weapons", far more practical if less spectacular. The Cavity Magnetron, the proximity fuse for AA, the LST, Code breaking and HF/DF for escort ships. Not to mention Manhattan…. This kind of thing is great fantasy, for an Indiana Jones film. You can only defy gravity by reaching escape velocity (or dropping at 128 mph until terra firma stops you) |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 23 Mar 2025 11:20 a.m. PST |
…A beautiful model though. |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 23 Mar 2025 12:35 p.m. PST |
Perfect fodder for a WW II (or just after) Pulp Fiction game. TVAG |
| Tango01 | 23 Mar 2025 3:57 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it boys…
Armand
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| Shagnasty | 24 Mar 2025 7:29 a.m. PST |
I thought a U.S. test flight of this baby crash-landed in Pennsylvania several decades ago. It must be true as I saw it on a UFO show. |
| Andy ONeill | 24 Mar 2025 11:12 a.m. PST |
Strange and weird.
Not sure it'd be on my modelling project list if I was still doing 1/35 ww2. Thought provoking if only along the lines of "who on earth believes this thing was real?" Cheers Armand |
| Tango01 | 24 Mar 2025 4:00 p.m. PST |
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| Extrabio1947 | 24 Mar 2025 5:14 p.m. PST |
Shag, it crashed in Kecksburg, PA in 1965. There is a statue that sits outside the Kecksburg Fire Department of what eyewitnesses claimed to have seen. That statue bears remarkable similarity to The Bell. One theory is that it was a prototype developed by German scientists recruited after WWII during Operation Paperclip. |
| Tango01 | 25 Mar 2025 4:07 p.m. PST |
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