What an interesting set of observations! You wrote;
> What makes the charge? The partial vacuum underneath the blade or
> the rubbing against the air which is strongest over the top of the
> blades.The man also told me that this charge builds up continuous
> and immediately after discharge although there is a time lapse of
> sufficient time to make the shooter do the work mainly because the
> animals and the net have contact with the ground and the shooter
> climbs on board via the cable being winched up or hops on to the
> undercarriage. Note only the tips of the blade glow ! which almost
> points to a centrifugal effect like David Hamil quotes as occurring
> with his design Any comment?
That not only sounds like Hamel but also like Searl claiming that in his
initial observations with electric motors that rotating metal would
cause electrons to be 'thrown' to the outside rim and with sufficient
velocity, a very high voltage would be developed which would soone
provide lift and upward acceleration.
It almost correlates with the homopolar motor as current flows from the
inside to the outside with both the inside and outside serving as
'terminals' for this rotating body....as with DePalma's 'N' machine.
Except this is high current as opposed to high voltage, but the
principle is similar. rotating metal produces the high voltage, rotating
magnets produces low voltage, high current....kind of like a mechanical
stepup or step down transformer depending on the form of electrical
energy desired.
Thanks for sharing the story..I love stuff like this...amazing how
people notice these things but don't really do anything about it...
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