Comments on: Strange Lifting Force Used in Novel Airship (Jan, 1931)

By: Don Carey

Don Carey — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:22:00 +0000

A triumph of hope over practicality.

By: Drew Ridama

Drew Ridama — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:46:18 +0000

Reminds me of the brilliant Douglas Adams explanation of flying: You throw yourself at the ground… and miss.

By: dm

dm — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:09:21 +0000

This looks an awful lot like the basis of the flying centrifuges which formed the basis of T. B. Pawlicki’s 1981 book “How to Build a Flying Saucer.” The various designs of mechanical centrifuges were eventually all built by experimenters and all of them did nothing but oscillate violently. Some did move, but that was only because they were bouncing on the floor – in the air, with no reaction surface, no net force in any direction was ever observed! Pawlicki proposed using particle accelerators – miniature cyclotrons – instead, but did not suggest how the particle masses would be controlled in the same way that the macroscopic ones in the mechanical devices are, or why the electronic devices would fare any better.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:33:32 +0000

In all, more time must have been spent making the illustration than thinking about the concept. Thoose were the days….

By: JMyint

JMyint — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:24 +0000

In one of Cyrano de Bergerac’s stories he described having built a flying machine that was nothing but a iron boat. To get it to fly the pilot needed to throw a powerful magnet in the air, repeatedly.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:42:18 +0000

Cookoon…
Is that the sound it makes when flying?

By: Cookoon

Cookoon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:50:04 +0000

JIjijijijijij..JOJOJOJOJOJOJO…jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee gyroOOOJOJOJOJOJOJojajajaja

By: C.Simon

C.Simon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:04:12 +0000

this is remarkable…Genius invention… does it really work? still doubtful.

By: WhoMEO?

WhoMEO? — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:54:11 +0000

You guys have it all wrong. It’s powered by it’s inventor’s pure MANness

By: KHarn

KHarn — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:32:35 +0000

By the way, is “picturization” even a word?

By: KHarn

KHarn — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:30:28 +0000

Does it have an INTEROSITER on board too?

By: beagledad

beagledad — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:15:47 +0000

Oh, come on.

Don’t you guys have gyradoscopes? Seriously? I’ve been using one for years. And one of these years, it will make my car fly. One of these years. Really.

By: Myles

Myles — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:39:27 +0000

Why go to the work of bolting this gyro machine to an elevator? Just enclose the machine in a box and let people see it hover in the air. Much more impressive.

By: Baron Waste

Baron Waste — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:17:32 +0000

Could this possibly be the Dean Drive?

By: Cleanser

Cleanser — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:02:09 +0000

the whole idea seems very much like lifting oneâ€™s self by oneâ€™s boot straps

That, or an investment scam preying on people who didn’t understand basic dynamics

Total baloney!

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:06:06 +0000

And when it is not flying, the gyradoscopes become perpetual motion machines generating
electricity from the Earth’s rotation.
(Be sure to anchor the airship first.)