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been built, but flight-tested. He told Frost that both the plans and the
craft itself had been destroyed in the closing weeks of the war.
How the information was used by Frost was never made clear. Like the
Avro supersonic disc program, he never spoke about it—to his family or
anyone.
I felt the historical data pulling me back. If the Canadians and the
British had been colluding on German-derived saucer technology, it was
dangerously close to the scenario that Vesco had espoused all along.
But Tony Frost had spent years trying to piece together the secret
history of his father's life and he was still no closer to the truth.
I had exhausted the safe, cozy world of archives and Internet trails. It
was like Cross had said; they'd succeeded only in taking me everywhere
and nowhere. If a decade of training had taught me anything, I knew my
only real chance of verifying Trimble's outburst back in 1956 was to
search for leads in the real world.
I didn't know it yet, but I was about to get a helping hand from a
scientist on the inside loop, a man I came in time to regard as a genius,
who for reasons of his own had already embarked on exactly the same
journey as I had.