Subj : From BBC site To : All From : alexander koryagin Date : Wed Jun 13 2018 19:41:34 From: alexander koryagin In the article "The lasting allure of the flying saucer", by Jon Kelly, BBC News Magazine, I've read this passage: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27796697 -----Beginning of the citation----- Thus flying saucers became a somewhat kitsch symbol of the more whimsical end of the space age. But the notion of floating disc-shaped aircraft wasn't considered fanciful by governments and militaries around the world. The new LDSD is far from the first attempt by earthlings to construct a flying saucer- like aircraft. For instance, German engineer Georg Klein told the CIA he worked on a Nazi flying saucer for the Luftwaffe under designers Rudolf Schriever and Richard Miethe - a claim which prompted the Americans to study the possibility of creating one of their own. -----The end of the citation----- 1. in the second paragraph: "But the notion of floating disc-shaped aircraft wasn't considered fanciful by governments and militaries around the world." Why the author has not put "a" before "floating disc-shaped aircraft"? 2. in the third paragraph: Why not _a_ German engineer Georg Klein? --- ifmail v.2.15dev5.4 * Origin: NPO RUSnet InterNetNews site (2:5020/400) .