
Flying Saucers Information
Last Updated:10/22/2012 7:46:19 PM
| Flying Saucers (August 1961-
September 1966
) |
| Flying Saucers are now a reality based in a "Space Station" in Disneyland's Tomorrowland. Here the guests may climb aboard his own craft, fasten his safety belt and actually take off in free flight and guide his own space ship. |

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Flying Saucers
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Walt Testing Flying Saucer
NOTE: copyright Walt Disney Company
Blueprints
NOTE: copyright Walt Disney Company
Walt Looking At Flying Saucers Test Bed
Morgan Valve Drawing For Patent
(1961)

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Flying Saucers
(1:27 1966)
Flying Saucers
(:21 1961)
Silent but great quality
(:39 1963)

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Secrets
This attraction was one of the worst maintenance headaches at Disneyland.
The ride was built by Arrow.
The area was 16,000 square foot with 2 sections each section with 32 saucers: 16 were flying while 16 were being loaded
each saucer was 6 feet in diameter
guests steared the saucers by leaning

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Articles
Long-Lost Disneyland Rides
Dateline: March 16, 2011
Status: Current
Opened in 1955, Disneyland in Anaheim, California has delighted visitors for decades with its eight themed "lands" of rides, shows and attractions. It just isn't possible to forget a first spin on Dumbo, rocketing through darkness on Space Mountain
Charles Phoenix's Retro Disneyland Slide Show Plays Crown Plaza Hotel Anaheim
Dateline: June 10, 2010
Status: Current
With his infectious enthusiasm and keen eye for detail, Charles Phoenix celebrates the 55th Anniversary of the Magic Kingdom's grand opening with his Retro Disneyland Slide Show. One performance only takes place at the Crown Plaza Hotel Anaheim
Flying Saucers Are Reported Heading Toward Disneyland
Dateline: January 01, 1961
Status: Archive
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No figment of the imagination, flying saucers are destined for the Park, to become one of Walt Disney's latest attractions for the 1961 season.
Scheduled to open this summer,the new adventure will have a space station in Tomorrowland,where
Disneyland At 50: Readers Share Past Disneyland Delights
Dateline: May 05, 2005
Status: Archive
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It was the summer before first grade, and John Quisling had learned a new word. He'd heard it on the radio and listened to his parents talk about it and wondered if it could be as magical as everyone said.
Disneyland did not disappoint.
Magical Memories
Dateline: April 30, 2005
Status: Archive
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Disneyland was built on a dream. And it was Walt Disney's dream that has made millions of wishes come true during the past 50 years.
Hundreds of millions of wishes, really. And also special moments - first dates and honeymoons, birthdays and

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