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[Poohbah]

Well, the acid test would be to stick the thing into a vacuum chamber and see if the performance is substantially the same.

[RLK]

I need a circuit diagram before I can evaluate or make a comment.

[Moosefart]

I do one last check of my DC transformer, which I bought online from a guy who specializes in energy systems that are illegal in several states. He put a sticker on this one: DANGER: ANTIGRAVITY IN DRIVER.

A power suppy from an old computer moniter works just as well. I built a lifter last year and it really does work.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember reading about this back in the 1960's in either POPULAR MECHANICS or POPULAR SCIENCE. The cover of the magazine showed an anti-gravity "flying machine" monitoring road trafic.

[chaosagent]

This is not new. Check out this link from 1964

http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm

[GOPJ]

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[jlogajan]

It is ionic wind. Once you approach a voltage gradient of about 20,000 volts per inch, air molecules start ionizing. You can put "pin points" on one side of a charged grid. The charged grid has a slightly lower gradient, so it doesn't ionize air molecules. The pin points do ionize the air around them. Once ionized, they are either repelled or attracted to the grid depending upon the charge. This creates a wind, or in rocket terms, a reaction mass. It is just like rocket exhaust. It heads one way and the "craft" moves the other way.

[thegreatbeast]

It's nice to see that science and experimentation is still practiced so jubilanyly at the amateur level. And conversely, sad to see NASA acting like the old, wheezy protectorate that we read so much about- in investigations of tragedies.

[gaucho]

There are some great instructions on how to build lifters at the site below. I built one last year using an unused CRT as a power source and maybe 5 bucks worth of parts. Lifters are also awesome science fair projects.

http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

[Brett66]

Good article, and they were honest about the ion-wind effect too.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the article. Great read.

[Captain Beyond]

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[RightWhale]

New Agers like this stuff. Must be partway to becoming pure spirit beings.

[Carry_Okie]

Bump to self.