INTRODUCTION

While serving at Edwards AFB, in Southern California between mid-1961 to December 1964, I had several opportunities to unique situations. One such opportunity was to work on the XB-70 Valkyrie Bomber. Because of cost overruns and the unforeseen success of ICBM technology, in the late 1950s, the B-70 project transitioned into the XB-70 research program shortly after President Kennedy took office in 1961. While talking with various other personnel working on the Valkyrie’s early morning pre-flights I became privy to numerous items about the original B-70 aircraft that the public was not made aware of at the time. Some of these things are probably still unknown to the public.

One of these items was supposedly a unique air-to-air missile that was to be proprietary to the Valkyrie’s operational defense system. At the time I tried to gather as much information as I could about this unique missile but back then one never pushed for information that did not directly affect their assigned job. While I never saw the missile I was able to collect enough information to form a picture of something that, if mentioned to the outside world, would be dismissed as fantasy.

Pye Wacket was the first and, with today’s conspiracy community, I doubt the last, Lenticular Rocket Powered Missile. In simple words a rocket powered flying saucer.

DARQUE SOL CONCEPT IMAGE

While surfing the Internet I came across some actual documentation and pictures of the Pye Wacket missile. I became fixed with the concept based on hearing about it years ago and now actually seeing that it did exist, or at least was tested for feasibility with some success. It was enough success for me to warrant deeper thinking about the possibility of building and flying an actual full size version of the design concept.

My intention was, with the help of some close friends, to build and fly a full size vehicle based on the Pye Wacket concept. Research to this end proved daunting and the realization of a Pye Wacket vehicle was out of the question. In fact a Lenticular vehicle of any type set, to operate at subsonic speeds, was almost impossible. But with research, both in the case of the Pye Wacket and my own theories, the idea evolved with me until I felt I could build a lenticular vehicle, with minimal control surfaces, no actual rudder and rocket powered.

Thus was born the DARQUE SOL Project. The menu above will take you to what information on the Pye Wacket missile I was able to uncover. It will also take you to the DARQUE SOL Project. We hope you find it interesting.