Thanks for the URL for your page...very nicely done and it poses some
great observations that might be useful. I'll have to put up a link
to your page on KeelyNet as a lot of our people are interested in
this...for now, I will post it to the discussion list also as about
308 people are currently subscribed.
As to Sandy Kidd, I got an email several years ago from a company in
Australia who produced a new sciences show, I believe it was Beyond
2000...they had read that Kidd article located at;
http://www.st-and.ac.uk./~www_sa/personal/acw2/gravity5.txt
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Another version without much useful info;
http://www.scotgeist.com/mindmap/week4/dundonia.html
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Harold Aspden on Sandy Kidd;
http://www.energyscience.co.uk/notes/rn9712.htm
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Here is a similar file about the late Eric Laithwaites gravity
reduction experiments;
http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/laith1.txt
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Anyway, these guys at Beyond 2000 said they wanted to do a story on
him...said they could stay busy with stories for 2 years just from the
KeelyNet files that they had seen..<g>...nice folks...
Anyway, about a year after that, I heard Kidd had been interviewed and
it was to be broadcast on Beyond 2000...so I videotaped it showing
this strange precessional, rotational device powered by a small model
airplane engine that was noisy as hell...
He had a platform that held the rotary device powered by the tiny
engine.....the platform was connected to a thin cable that went
through a loop secured in the ceiling and over to another loop where
it suspended a bucket of rocks.
Before he started the motor up, he added rocks to the bucket so that
the weight of the platform was perfectly counter-balanced with the
weight of the bucket of rocks...
When he started the motor and as the thing picked up speed, it was a
very klutzy and crude affair, but it appeared to spin with no
problems...while it was spinning the the thing jerked up in small
steps of about 1/2" and the bucket of rocks moved lower.
It was very jerky and our discussions indicated the lifting was done
as a result of inertial or frictional creep, due to imbalances that
momentarily reoriented and shifted the center of gravity of the rotary
components so that it litererally creeped upwards...it was being
dragged down by the weight of the rocks in the bucket.
This has been discussed in other KeelyNet discussion list incarnations
but they were long ago...that's why I'm repeating the story since you
asked about Kidd.
Now I heard from someone who said the demonstration he showed Beyond
2000 wasn't his most advanced...that he had one that really did freely
hover though it too was very jerky and unstable...the point being that
it was not tethered with the counterbalance...never heard anyone else
report that so I don't know how much veracity to attribute to it.
---Glenn Turner wrote:
>
> I believe that you have been looking for Sandy Kidd of Barnhill,
Scotland.
> I too have been looking for him for quite some years now.
> If I find him I will let you know, if you have found him or do can
you let
> me know.
>
> I have a website you may interested in.
>
> "Gyroscopes as Anti-Gravity Devices"
>
> http://www.gyros.freeserve.co.uk
>
>
> Glenn Turner
> (Gyroscopic Anti-Gravity Researcher)
>
>
> E-mail: glenn_turner@altavista.net
>
>
>
>
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