He has US patent 5024112, available on the IBM patent server at
http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/patlist?icnt=US&patent_number=5024112&x=34
&y=10
I also have seen some thing about him in a NATO ASGARD volume about
gyros written by a friend of Laithwaite's, I'll try to see if I can dig
it up for you.
In the meantime here are some URLs you might want to look at (found with
the excellent Copernic search program-- couldn't live without it) Most
of these are not very substantive, but there might be something you've
missed...
http://www.energyscience.co.uk/notes/rn9712.htm
http://area51.icom.net/ufo/paranet/newsletter/509
http://www.keelynet.com/energy/inertia1.txt
http://metalab.unc.edu/subgenius/subg-digest/v2/0046.html
http://www.scotgeist.com/mindmap/week4/dundonia.html
http://www.spiritweb.org/KeelyNet/Gravity/gravity5.asc.html
BTW, good to hear from you.. I am reading your excellent book, slowly,
it takes time to digest. It hold an honored place on the top of the
toilet tank :-)
Fred
>
>Happy New Year to all of you! Anybody ever heard of an engineer called
Sandy
>Kidd, who, judging from the clippings I just received, worked on an
antigravity
>device working on a gyroscope principle, in the `80's in Australia?
>
>Best,
>Theo Paijmans
>