This is an ordinary paper airplane made of a booklet. Few people know that this toy is less than 100 years old. It is believed that it was first laid down in 1930 by John Northrop, an American aeronautical engineer, one of the creators and project manager of the P-61 Black Widow heavy night fighter.
Sakkar bird.
But this is the so-called Sakkar bird from the tomb of the pharaoh. Officially, historical science believes that in ancient times people did not know about flying machines, but how then, among the finds of 2-3 thousand years ago, there are figures and images exactly repeating modern supersonic aircraft?
Three thousand years ago, there was air traffic between Ancient Egypt and South America, and these were jet-powered aircraft - scientists came to such a sensational conclusion by comparing artifacts found on continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
The ships of the aliens, as the ancient legends of the aborigines of South America say, moved through the air - "they sang in a drawn-out way like a red wolf and fell like a star into the sky leaving the heat of a hundred bonfires." A sample of these sparkling fish-headed boats has come down to us and this is the so-called Colombian airplane - a golden figurine of a supersonic fighter.
Colombian airplane.
One can disagree with this, but what about a similar description of the celestial chariots of the pharaohs in Ancient Egypt? The evidence that has survived to this day is the inscriptions on the walls of God Horus in the city of Edfu, He ascended into the sky on a winged disk with a falcon's head. How the winged machine of the God Horus looked like remained a mystery until recently. It was found by chance in the storerooms of the Cairo National Museum.
Here is a wooden bird from the tomb of the pharaoh in the ancient city of Saqqara.
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The age of this handicraft is about 2.5 thousand years, the material is sycamore (a tree sacred to the Egyptians, and the strength is something like our oak), and on the fuselage there are barely distinguishable hieroglyphs "an offering to Amon, the God of Heaven."
The most amazing thing is the structure of the wing of the Sakkar bird, it is deltoid, i.e. slightly bent back and down. Exactly the same shape of the wings of the supersonic passenger aircraft TU-144 and Concorde.
Who were these mysterious aviators of the past? The dating of the Indian Vedas and artifacts (figures of aircraft) coincide with 2.5 thousand years BC. In addition, in 150 verses of the Vedas (Rigveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda) there are indeed descriptions of similar designs of air chariots flying without a horse.
The greatest epic of the Indian people, Mahabharata, says that vimanas carried people across the seas, and some machines were even equipped with weapons.
It is believed that after this battle the vimanas disappeared. There is an assumption that they could have been flooded in the Indian Ocean, and all the blueprints and construction technologies are hidden.
The knowledge about the vimans was diligently erased from the memory of mankind, but thanks to myths and legends, the information still reached our days.
The Indian emperor Ashoka was the first in history who wanted to know the secret of the vimanas in the 3rd century. BC. he organized a secret society "Nine Unknowns" which included the best minds in India. They studied ancient sources in search of information about aircraft. The result of their labors was a collection of nine volumes "Secrets of Gravity", which was lost without a trace, however, some historians believe that the most valuable treatise is still vigilantly kept in one of the cave monasteries in Tibet.