re: plans for ionocraft
Pat Price ( pat_price@asd.sel.sony.com )
Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:13:26 -0700
Don,
I would be suspicious of plans from the source shown in your email.
If you look at their web page the first graphic is of a flying saucer.
This is a picture of a craft that first appeared in Popular Science
around the late seventies. It was a craft designed by a gentleman named
Molar who has/had a business in Davis California. Molar manufactured
motorcycle mufflers for high performance bikes. He has been featured on
Discovery Channel a few years ago and his flying craft has been updated
with more curves than a mountain road. His early models (that actually
flew) were powered by rotary snow mobile engines as was the latest
prototype shown on the Discovery program. I have tried to do web
searches lately and cannot find any information on him. The site linked
to in your email looks like a graphic composed of all of the free energy
ads in the back of popular mechanics. I don't want to burst anyone's
bubble but the chances of getting a set of OU plans for twenty bucks is
slim and none.
I'm not quite a novice in the area. My son and I ran a Keely BBS
mirror for over five years and I came close to blowing the garage up
more than once building vapor carburetors and caused my neighbors no
small amount of annoyance with static on their TVs while running
electrostatic experiments. Keep the faith and don't give up. Also don't
let a letter like this put you off. My concern is that this is a field
in which claims are easily made and hard to prove or more importantly,
to disprove.
--Pat Price