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By the spring of 1884, .....
I managed to embark for New York with the remnants of my belongings, some poems
and articles I had written, and a package of calculations relating to solutions of an
unsolvable integral and my flying machine.
As stated on a previous occasion, when I was a student at college I conceived a
flying machine quite unlike the present ones. The underlying principle was sound,
but could not be carried into practice for want of a prime-mover of sufficiently great
activity. In recent years, I have successfully solved this problem and am now
planning aerial machines *devoid of sustaining planes, ailerons, propellers, and
other external* attachments, which will be capable of immense speeds and are very
likely to furnish powerful arguments for peace in the near future. Such a machine,
sustained and propelled "entirely by reaction," is shown on one of the pages of my
lectures, and is supposed to be controlled either mechanically, or by wireless
energy. By installing proper plants, it will be practicable to "project a missile of this
kind into the air and drop it" almost on the very spot designated, which may be
thousands of miles away.
Originally posted by shasta9600
Interesting info. I wonder if that UFO crash on a rural ranch in Aurora Texas in the 1897, was an early Tesla test craft? Could have easily been.
Tesla’s original vision, in his 1870’s student days, of his “ideal flying machine”, was of an electropulsive one, the realization of which is why he said he originally entered the field of electrical science in 1875 in the first place. This was the problem which he had assigned to himself as his main lifelong work. (Frank Parker Stockbridge, The Tesla Turbine. The World’s Work, march, 1912, pp. 543-48.)
Originally anticipating that the electrical power needs for an electropropulsive craft would be too great for an on-board power plant (since his ship was to be devoid of sustaining planes), he initially embarked on developing his “wireless transmission of power” system, so as to transmit the anticipated power needed from ground-based power generators and stations. Some of these earlier Tesla ideas turned out to be unnecessary for his flying machine, so he turned them for intended commercial purposes.
Originally posted by shasta9600
Interesting info. I wonder if that UFO crash on a rural ranch in Aurora Texas in the 1897, was an early Tesla test craft? Could have easily been.