The failure of Avra Car

             How much is it possible for every single person's imaginations and dreams to come true? How far can humans go as close to as God? People have always been curious to seek the answers to these questions for a long period of time. Although people have respected and feared gods, they, on the other hand, have always wished to challenge gods and to be one of them. Then, as time went on, some people discovered a spell that would deliver them to the world of gods called "science." Soon, they started acting like a god by using the magic and as their vanities grew larger, they even started playing around with humans such as creating a new born baby.
             Bill Zuk, the author of the article "Flip Flop & Flounder: Avro's Flying Saucer," criticizes the humans' unspeakable vanities and outrageous behaviors by giving an example of the failure of vanity. Through his article, he closely observes and emphasizes humans' incompetence against the limit of reality. Bill implies that science may have managed to make dreams possible but not all imaginations can come true; "Such an enterprising spirit was bound to produce both great success and poignant failures."
             In his article, Bill uses the "flying saucer" as an example to support his argument. The Flying saucer was a new design of aircraft proposed by John C.M Frost. John was an aircraft designer who was hired by Avro Canada in 1947 as a head of the Special Projects Group. John took over the XC-100 project, Canada's first jet-engined fighter, but got dismissed after the discovery of a fatal flaw in the wing spar. However, he already had a new project in mind, inventing a "disk-shaped aircraft." During that time, U.F.O became a hot issue and John, once he was fascinated by UFO reports, was intrigued by the potential of "disk-shaped aircraft." However, this project also faced serious problems and had to stop ...

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