Comments on: RADIO WAVES KEEP AIRSHIP ALOFT (Jan, 1929) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/07/14/radio-waves-keep-airship-aloft/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: rick s. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/07/14/radio-waves-keep-airship-aloft/comment-page-1/#comment-1079583 rick s. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:54:29 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9895#comment-1079583 The guy looks a little like a young Bela Lugosi. Maybe that's why it works for him. Rick The guy looks a little like a young Bela Lugosi. Maybe that’s why it works for him.

Rick

]]> By: Arglebarglefarglegleep http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/07/14/radio-waves-keep-airship-aloft/comment-page-1/#comment-1079570 Arglebarglefarglegleep Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:18:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9895#comment-1079570 Ionic thrust works on a limited scale, model thrusters can be made out of foil, wire and very high voltage power supplies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft The Ionic Breeze air purifier is basically a low power, stationary ion thruster designed for removing particulates from the air. http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/764184/Sharper-Image-Ionic-Breeze-30-Air/;jsessionid=0000Yjaw6ozEm-LccJvAJWBsMFX:13ddpq53l?cm_mmc=Mercent-_-Google-_-Cleaning_and_Breakroom-_-764184 Ionic propulsion is being experiment with by several space agencies. They use radio waves to excite gases into plasma states then expel them from magnetic ‘nozzles’. The biggest problem with them is they don’t work very well w/o immense amount of power [think nuclear power] or they need a microgravity environment that allows very little resistance to motion. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/fs21grc.html There’s also beamed power propulsion which may use microwaves or lasers to heat a material to produce thrust on a separate vehicle that ground or orbital units power. There’s several successful laboratory level projects that are excellent proof of concept experiments. http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~dimlyus/xlaunch/ http://www.lightcrafttechnologies.com/newsletter.html Ionic thrust works on a limited scale, model thrusters can be made out of foil, wire and very high voltage power supplies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft The Ionic Breeze air purifier is basically a low power, stationary ion thruster designed for removing particulates from the air. http://www.officedepot.com/a/p.....m-_-764184

Ionic propulsion is being experiment with by several space agencies. They use radio waves to excite gases into plasma states then expel them from magnetic ‘nozzles’. The biggest problem with them is they don’t work very well w/o immense amount of power [think nuclear power] or they need a microgravity environment that allows very little resistance to motion.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/gl.....21grc.html

There’s also beamed power propulsion which may use microwaves or lasers to heat a material to produce thrust on a separate vehicle that ground or orbital units power. There’s several successful laboratory level projects that are excellent proof of concept experiments.
http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~dimlyus/xlaunch/
http://www.lightcrafttechnolog.....etter.html

]]> By: Chris Radcliff http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/07/14/radio-waves-keep-airship-aloft/comment-page-1/#comment-1079567 Chris Radcliff Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:29:52 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9895#comment-1079567 Is this the same Bernays Johnson who was impervious to the electric chair? http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/01/25/electric-chair-powerless-to-harm-wizard/ Wait a minute… that's the same issue, even! Who was this super-hero? Is this the same Bernays Johnson who was impervious to the electric chair?

http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....rm-wizard/

Wait a minute… that’s the same issue, even! Who was this super-hero?

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/07/14/radio-waves-keep-airship-aloft/comment-page-1/#comment-1079565 jayessell Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:12:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9895#comment-1079565 An electrostatic air pump? <b><i>THAT</i></b> is suppossed to replace the rotor of a helicopter? Ha Ha Ha! Oh wait. You're serious. Let me laugh harder. BWAH HAH HAH!!! (Thanks Bender, and welcome back, Thursdays 10pm Comedy Channel.) An electrostatic air pump?
THAT is suppossed to replace the rotor of a helicopter?

Ha Ha Ha! Oh wait. You’re serious. Let me laugh harder. BWAH HAH HAH!!!

(Thanks Bender, and welcome back, Thursdays 10pm Comedy Channel.)

]]> By: K Riemer http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/07/14/radio-waves-keep-airship-aloft/comment-page-1/#comment-1079563 K Riemer Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:40:17 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9895#comment-1079563 I suspect what this was was an "Ionocraft" or similar lots on the net about it (http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm). The David Yorysh mentioned in the article was the father of a friend of mine. A neat guy he built a GIANT Bell tetrahedral kite for the NY Central Park kite festival in 1967(?). But of course that's a story for a different article. k I suspect what this was was an “Ionocraft” or similar lots on the net about it (http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm). The David Yorysh mentioned in the article was the father of a friend of mine. A neat guy he built a GIANT Bell tetrahedral kite for the NY Central Park kite festival in 1967(?). But of course that’s a story for a different article.

k

]]>