wez_sti

Found a web site not so long ago about some very small crafts (only approx 500grams) which were being used in experiments which basically levitated the craft using very high voltage which apparently produced a strong magnetic field...

Always been facinated with the possibility of cars flying about like in The Fifth Element etc... and realise how much the world would change if it happened..


anyone know more about it, i'm gonna look for the website now!

OllyK

Seems experiments have been done sucessfully by 1 person but nobody else can replicate them - suggests that the experiment was flawed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2157975.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/06/hyperdrive/

wez_sti

Fake...???


http://www.americanantigravity.com/hvolt50kit.shtml

wez_sti

looks like another con to get money out of people!

http://www.hovertech.com/hovertech/index.html

mart360

Are you sure???

I seem to recall a documentary on sky wings covering some nasa or similar stuff using plasma fields to make a flying saucer fly, (leslie may be able to shed light on it, as he,s been around the stuff) it took a high voltage arc, to hit a saucer shaped object, the resulting mag field caused the craft to burn the plasma field on the edge of the arc, and as such repulsed the craft, and caused it to spin, the craft would only run for 5-10 sec,s as it zapped the arc, but it was giving the scientists new ideas.


Mart

speedking

Maglev. Similar idea, used to power trains that weigh a lot more than 500g

wez_sti

mmmm, yeah have known about the bullet trains etc... for years and years, but thought these 'lifters' might be slightly different as they seem to be able to levitate over any surface, rather than purose built magnetic tracks...

imagine if they cracked it, very little congestion, able to visit scotland etc.. in a couple of hours, would be mad!

wonder what would happen to Scoobs!

NeilT

not fake (AFAIK). Nick Cook, as respected Journalist with Janes Defense weekly did a feature on the chap that runs the site and his creations and theories some time ago. It was thought they used an Ion wind propulsion technology on the lifters, but recently this has come into question.

Also, the technology was being looked at under the project name of "greenglow" by BAE systems some time back.

Theres a good lifters Egroups (.com) with lots of info on it and people running their own experiments, if you want further info.

Neil