Once upon a time (trite I know, but most stories of might and magic start like that! ;), an Oregon City High School student read a story on UFOs. One of those books had a tale about the Roswell incident, and one particular story entailed the anonymous contributions of a soldier who said he was present when that famous craft was discovered.

That story detailed balls that rolled around a race in the saucer-shaped craft, a wheel gyroscope in the center of the cabin, and some dead short guys with not enough fingers, not much to go on, I know, but something!

As a science monster, having doubled up on sciences in the school's new program to give the student more choices, that particular story was of interest because it contained mechanical descriptions of the recovered craft. That information went into the wetware to resurface another day.

Having interest in "strange" devices and energy-related inventions like the "water powered car", that his elders had told him about in his youth, our fair-haired boy decided to try something that fit into several "slots" in his mind.

A man named Joseph Newman had been on the Johnny Carson Show, talking about "gyroscopic particles" that fit the "truth template" in his mind, explaining the dual nature of light, having both particulate and wave characteristics.

So began the first experiment that stared the ball rolling (I had to say that! 8-). Electronics training spoke to our adventurer with it's resonant circuits, having "apparent power" of many times the input power, and Tesla's earthquake machine (what? you've never heard of it? I'm NOT surprised!) that could level a town in a two mile radius with little more energy than contained in a couple of car batteries, then Mr. Newman's gyroscopic particles, and the mechanical description of the Roswell craft merged into an idea!

Bells ring with much more energy than the striker supplies, the traditional description of "work" is violated. Pendulums are started on their merry way downhill; does the pendulum bob stop at the bottom? NO! Although it does eventually stop it's motion, the amount of "work" required to lift it is not exhausted when it returns to the starting position (does it?!).

In 1986 (a lot of dog years ago in the grand scheme of things), our patently pernicious person decided to try something, and the first violation of "Newton's Laws" presented itself in the que of things for him to think about.

At the right is a virtual reconstruction of the experiment that changed the world (yeah RIGHT!, like I myself can change things in this crazy place!), a simple construct of a variable contact path pendulous track for a hollow ball that happened to be handy. The darned thing had a "J" shaped swing! Science training said that was impossible! The ball "should" have had nearly equal endpoints of oscillation, minus friction! Did that happen? noOOoo!

Our hero then shelved that knowledge, having to live in the "real world", making a "living" (well, more like surviving if you know what I mean!).

Enter the Internet! Having had first hand experience with those who were admitted big oil company people, and a negative and rather frightening experience that shaped the future method of doing things, the timid inventor decided to GO FOR IT!, and made the world's first Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster!

Right about the start of 1997, some Fix-All plaster left over from a repair needed in my "real" job, several large ball bearings left over from another time (uhhh.....I was gonna try this thing several years back, and had the money to buy them, but hadn't gotten around to it! )-:, adding a salvaged turntable motor, and the first GIT was born!

So here was the idea (by the way, the experiment worked, WHAT, YOU HAD DOUBTS? (I did!)): get the information out to as many people as possible. Gotta be done, can't "hoard" this idea and have it survive!

The internet was the solution! A distributed laboratory world-wide. LOTS of people that could identify with the concepts that may have the ability to duplicate the results and then, you tell two friends, then they tell two friends, and, (I watch too much TV these days!).

So I started making friends on the net. They might not share that concept, but if we can get to my goals of getting us "hoo-mans" up off the ground and into space where there are no limits, I call them friends!

To date, I have had many contacts. You are now one of my contacts! TOO LATE! Now you know! You are now a team member, whether you want to be or not. You will mention this site, crazy as it is, to one who has the knowledge and science to question current reality. That person will have the means to further my goals of our new reality. You may in fact be that person!

I'm currently working on a double conic GIT, with molds made from funnels in disposable paper cups. Lead halves are soldered together, and will be jacketed in casting resin with iron dust fill for abrasion resistance and hardness, and fiberglass chop for tensile strength.

. As this GIT is built, I will add more of the details as each stage is accomplished, and will culminate when thrust tests are run, and local demonstrations of this "impossible" idea are held.

It's slow going, and others will be contacting me with their own versions of the GIT in the meantime. I will take my sweet time in crafting a GIT that can endure the high velocities to develop useful and convincing thrust, and do so on a budget that would make a make an average student cry! The result will be a GIT that an average person can build, with very little investment!

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At the right is less than half of the cast lead I have today, hundreds of pounds of many hot days and scalded fingers! Both solid orbitals and ring mass orbitals are in the pipeline. Many thanks to Bob and Fred at our local Les Schwab Tire Center! They grinned a lot when I told them what I needed the nearly 300 pounds of free lead for, but I will justify their kindness with a new science to tourture our kids with.!

24 June 1998
On the right is the device I'm working on now, two other spherical orbital GITs were already built discarded as poor performers in the mean time, and the angle on the conics needed to be "squattened" for increased stability (several "GITastrophies" have been traced to too tall conics!), from my original lead headed ambitions above! Networking certainly has it's advantages, a LOT of learning has been going on about how best to craft these things!

You can see the original 30 degree (from rotation axis) cone left in the cast lead rings, but the right cone (45 degrees) rolling surface version is now crafted from wet or dry sandpaper cones, epoxied into shape, and filled with rock hard plaster around the rings.

The dual drive wheel is made from hand drill rubber sanding disks, mounted on 1/4 inch threaded rod for the axel, and a rubber face will be added to the race edges after the sandpaper orbitals "lap" the plywood circle cut race halves into shape.

While I've been neglecting my own constructions and testing in the recent past, now that the forums have taken over the bulk of the daily traffic, FINALLY I'm making my OWN GIT construction that I think will hold up fairly well for rigorous testing.

DO stay tuned!

Uhmmmm.... I don't often get to rearrange my website as often as I'd like, the best place for the latest info is in my updates!

As of this writing insert, I've built (rebuilt the orbitals to half the mass, hollow all the way, slipped the molds off that very morning of the public humiliation! ;), tested favorably, bombed at the Mars Convention (resulting in more interest anyway!), retreaded the race, retested on water and my favorite, an air hockey table! I proved that multiple orbitals will add thrust (at least to my own satisfaction), DANG happy about that! I'm getting ready to redo my site in a few days when the digital treasure returns from the film developer place. Video to follow if I can manage the software, talk to you then! - DavidC - 12:40 am, 3 September 1998

Impossible is only a word, it shouldn't be a paradigm!

Stay tuned!