Flyin-Saucer

The Flyin-Saucer is an early purpose-built flying-disc product and a landmark object in the museum’s account of commercial flying-disc development.

Identification

Document the exact product name, maker, designers, dates, material, markings, dimensions, and known variants from primary sources and the museum record.

Design and manufacture

Explain the design problem the product addressed and place manufacture within its business and patent context.

Marketing and use

Use period advertisements, packaging, retail evidence, photographs, and testimony to show how the product was presented and used.

Historical significance

Compare it carefully with preceding thrown objects and subsequent commercial discs, including the Pluto Platter.

Museum example

Link the individual object’s Omeka record here when it is public.

Research needed: Reconcile product naming, inventor/designer roles, company chronology, patents, and variant dates.