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Originally posted by vorlance So, the 1 million dollar question is - Does this electro-gravitic lifting effect really operate in the vacuum of outer space?
I am giving serious consideration to starting another thread on just design principles, maybe even come up with a cost effective model capable of transporting maybe half a ton or so. When I do I want you and zorgon to join me and perchance we could bring in some more minds and take the project a little closer to being fully realized.
Originally posted by Matyas
Ionic wind, on the other hand, works very well in a fluid medium since hydrodynamic flow is the principle ingredient. And they are a lot cheaper.
I am giving serious consideration to starting another thread on just design principles, maybe even come up with a cost effective model capable of transporting maybe half a ton or so. When I do I want you and zorgon to join me and perchance we could bring in some more minds and take the project a little closer to being fully realized.
Just as no overview of astronautics and modern rocketry could be complete without a discussion of the work of Hermann Julius Oberth (1894–1989), any descriptions of the dawn of EP would be glaringly wanting without an account of his role in bringing the concept of EP into the limelight. To exaggerate only a little the procreational similes often used to describe the “fathers” of rocketry [32], we could say that if Oberth is now recognized as a father for rocketry and astronautics he should be lauded as a midwife for electric propulsion. We say so because Oberth’s major contribution, as far as EP is concerned, was not in having developed specific inventions, or having undertaken technically rich conceptualizations,but rather in having defined, for the first time publicly and unambiguously, EP as a serious and worthy pursuit in astronautics. If the field of electric propulsion is not indebted to Oberth for a lasting technical contribution, it can trace its conceptual origin as a discipline to the last chapter of his all-time astronautics classic Wege zur Raumschiffahrt25 (Ways to Spaceflight) published in 1929. Oberth devoted that whole chapter, titled “Das elektrische Raumschiff” (“The Electric Spaceship”), to spacecraft power and EP. In that chapter he extolled the mass-savings capabilities of EP, predicts its future role in propulsion and attitude control outside the atmosphere, and advocated electrostatic acceleration of electrically charged gases, which can be created from refuse on the orbiting space station that is a major theme of the book.
Originally posted by zorgonAH Found it I did.....
Originally posted by torbjon
that image for the 1962 American Mars Atomic Rocket or whatever looks suspiciously like Nomad before merging with 'the other'...
that image for the 1962 American Mars Atomic Rocket or whatever looks suspiciously like Nomad before merging with 'the other'...
Nothing suspicious about it... both were designs from the drawing board of Werner von Braun who' with his team, has designed most of the space vehicles including the shuttle. And before he passed on, he left designs for the next 25 years...
Gotta love those Deutsche Rakete Wissenschaftler ummmm errr sorry German Rocket Scientists
Originally posted by vorlance it sure makes you wonder which of the other designs were built and flown in secret.
Originally posted by torbjon... and they didn't even have CAD *laughs*