There are in principle tree methods that can be used to drive flying objects if you talk about inside the atmosphere.
These are: Lighter than air, the method of vingprofile and the principle of reaction. If youÆre traveling outside the atmosphere thereÆs only one available: the principle of reaction.
One of many problems with the reaction method is the great amount of fuel you have to take with you. ThatÆs because the method are built on the Principle that you throw away mass from the flying object. The method is also hard to steer and control.
These difficulties have made journeys to space not even extremely costly but also a hi-risk project in technical aspects.
The question is: Are there any other methods? That is the topic that the following article are going to shed some light on.
By: Anders Persson
To seek for new alternative propulsion methods is really not a new thing. The history is full of people who says they have invented new, often amazing, methods to propel different types of crafts.
A short time ago I receive a letter from an Italian organisation called ASPS (Associazione Sviluppo Propulsione Spaziale) who said they had found a brand new propulsion method. It was not depending of the reaction method and they said that this method was a breakthrough to invent a craft who can reach, not only the planets in our solar system, but also the stars. They talk about the wave of impact and the wave of recoil in different types of solids. The idea (as I understand it) is to prevent the wave of recoil and as a result we could therefore forget problems with the slow of the mass (of course amazing if it true)!! Detail was not to be given thus the ideas could fall in wrong hands, therefore it was a secret. At the end they said that they would appreciate if I send some money to them so that they can build a spacecraft to Mars!
Well I think I hold my money for a little while till I have some more facts...
Electrogravitic
Almost at the same time another letter came to me, and it describe how an electrogravitic method was employed to propel the exotic American B2 plane (see picture). The following is a short version of the article...
öFor many years rumours circulated that the U.S. was secretly developing a highly advanced, radar-evading aircraft. Rumour turned to reality in November of 1988, when the Air Force unveiled the B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber. Although military spokesmen provided the news media with some information about the craft's outward design, and low radar and infrared profile, there was much they were silent about. However, several years later, some key secrets about the B-2 were leaked to the press. On March 9, 1992, "Aviation Week and Space
Technology" magazine made a surprising disclosure that the B-2 electrostatically charges its exhaust stream and the leading edges of its wing-like body. Those familiar with the electrogravitics research of American physicist T.Townsend Brown will quickly realize that this is tantamount to stating that the B-2 is able to function as an antigravity aircraft."
"Aviation Week" obtained their information about the B-2 from a small group of renegade west coast scientists and engineers who were formerly associated with black research projects. In making these disclosures, these scientists broke a code of silence that rivals the Mafia's. They took the risk because they felt that it was important for economic reasons that efforts be made to declassify certain black technologies for commercial use. Two of these individuals said that their civil rights had been blatantly abused (in the name of security) either to keep them quiet or to prevent them from leaving the tightly controlled black R&D community."
"Several months after "Aviation Week" published the article, black world security personnel went into high gear. That sector of the black R&D community received VERY STRONG warnings and, as a result, the group of scientists subsequently broke off contact with the magazine. Clearly, the overseers of black R&D programs were substantially concerned about the information leaks that had come out in that article."
(Picture: T. Townsend Brown and Agnew H. Bahnson at the Bahnson Company 1958)
"To completely understand the significance of what was said about the B-2, one must first become familiar with Brown's work. Beginning in the mid 1920's, Townsend Brown discovered that it is possible to create an artificial gravity field by charging an electrical capacitor to a high-voltage. He specially built a capacitor which utilized a heavy, high charge-accumulating (high K-factor) dielectric material between its plates and found that when charges with between 70,000 to 300,000 volts, it would move in the direction of its positive pole. When oriented with its positive side up, it would proceed to lose about 1 percent of it's weight. He attributed this motion to an electrostatically-induced gravity field acting between the capacitor's oppositely charged plates. By 1958, he had succeeded in developing a 15 inch diameter model saucer that could lift over 110% of its weight! Brown's experiments had launched a new field of investigation which came to be known as electrogravitics, the technology of controlling gravity through the use of high-voltage electric charge."
(Picture: Suspended saucer test by T. Townsend Brown and Agnew H. Bahnson at the Bahnson Company 1958)
"As early as 1952, an AIr Force major general witnessed a demonstration in which Brown flew a pair of 18 inch disc airfoils suspended from opposite ends of a rotatable arm. When electrified with 50,000 volts, they circuited at a speed of 12 miles per hour. About a year later, he flew a set of 3 foot diameter saucers for some Air Force officials and representatives from a number of major aircraft companies. When energized with 150,000 volts, the discs sped around the 50 foot diameter course so fast that the subject was immediately classified (top secret). "Interavia" magazine later reported that the discs would attain speeds of several hundred miles per hour when charged with several hundred thousand volts."
"Brown's discs were charged with a high positive voltage, on a wire, running along their leading edge and a high negative voltage, on a wire, running along their trailing edge. As the wires ionized the air around them, a dense cloud of positive ions would form ahead of the craft and corresponding cloud of negative ions would form behind the craft. Brown's research indicated that, like the charged plates of his capacitors, these ion clouds induced a gravitational force directed in the minus to plus direction. As the disc moved forward in the response to its self generated gravity field, it would carry with it its positive and negative ion clouds and their associated electrogravity gradient. Consequently, the discs would ride their advancing gravity wave much like surfers ride an ocean wave."
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