*UPDATE 17*
Friday 3 October 1997 - 7 am
Exciting things are a happinin'! A bunch of pictures have finally come in, and I've designed several new pages to keep you informed of breaking developments.
First off, Sam Smith of Florida has sent me pictures which I've had digitized and have made a page for him so you can see his efforts. While he has made two versions of the friction drive GIT, a monster he calls "Bowling Ball Bertha", and a more reasonable test construct called "billiard ball billy", he has discovered the hard way that when I insist on !! SOLID ROLLING TRACTION !!, I'm not talking to hear my own modem squawk!
Both constructs started their lives as fine examples of what happens when slick orbitals are run on slick metal races, ie. expensive wild motion machines (rather than controled linear thrust)! He described the overloaded washing machine "hula" that results when an off balance weight is rotated at high speed.
Sam can attest to my screaming through the email to get some race traction on his devices, and he graciously tried my "suggestion" by adding rubber facing to the race and drive wheel of billy.
Guess what? Lo and Behold, "billiard ball billy" gave us a solid confirmation of the GIT principle with both a water test and a pendulum test! COol! I didn't include the pendulum test results (one inch off plumb with little swinging) on his page, as he needed to steady it with a finger, and as such is suspect as definitive.
He was going to get an accurate weight of billy (can you see the look on the check out person's face as he asks for a measurement? <grin>8), and suspend it with more than one line for rotation dampening, get a more accurate measure of distance held off plumb, to get a solid calculation of thrust.
Sam describes his devices and tests on the Sam Smith Page, with pictures. Sam is offering detailed plans for billy, a construct that most folks can build with easily obtained parts, and includes all the neccessaries like parts list, tools required, step by step instructions, and hints and suggestions for definitive proofs of inertial propulsion.
Sam is first with a commercial offering involving the GIT, and as such is another milestone in the birth and growth of a new idea, and a whole new field for science and industry.
HEY KIDS! Need a science project that will set your physics teachers on their ears? Do it now before the whole world finds out!
Pictures have also come back from the developer/digitizer that had JJ's first GIT, and the race for his next one, see the JJ Ellingsworth Page! (This link doesn't work at the moment, check back please).
JJ has the distinction of reporting the first successful friction drive GIT to me, one he threw together with hand bent steel rings, dual sheet steel drive wheels on a vacuum cleaner motor, and orbitals made from tennis balls filled with lead shot!
His email to me described him placing his quick test device in a cardboard box that would throw out most of the balls (rings were not all that accurate), but with one ball that remained it would move the heavy device and box about 1 inch with each go-round of the ball!
Ok, I know the arguments against testing inertial propulsion devices on a surface to eliminate possible unequal friction as an explanation for the phenomenon, but since the vibratory forces were in the plane of travel rather than a "hopping" motion, it was enough for me to rejoice in the fact that the friction drive was a viable construct.
The friction drive version works! This model is a BUNCH easier for us ordinary types to put together, and while I'm rather sure the free rolling version (electromagnetic motor control of individual orbitals) is a bit more efficient, if you don't have the facilities to wind shaped coils, build a dedicated power supply, rig up a computer control system for all that stuff, it wouldn't get built by anyone but the "big boy" companies.
That brings up another error I've made (I must be human, I err!) involving the friction drive model. In my tutorial animation, I have all of the orbitals turning at the same rate, each one facing the points of the compass at the same time. WRONG!
I should have paid attention when I was animating, I had to adjust the spin fraction of the orbitals individually to make them come out that way, and missed the fact that by doing so I was "fudging" actual measurements to create a false view of actual motion.
I can state now rather definitively that the linear inertial thrust is a result of the forces that usually add up to cancel the forward centrifugal thrust as "an opposite and equal reaction", are "hidden" in the spin of the orbitals while the orbital is making it's nose to tail run, saving it as spin energy to be released in the proper forward direction, making it a more efficient machine.
The orbitals DO in fact increase their spin rate in going toward the tail, and decrease their spin as they speed back up on the tail to nose return. That's where the back forces go momentarily to give us a net forward inertial thrust!
In odd "spare" moments I'm working on a more accurate animation to show the variation in spin with the movement of the orbitals. I have to do it graphically since I don't have the math to calculate particulars. The next GIT I'm building and have modeled on my artwork page is the unit I will animate, since the real one will give actual thrust measurements to relate to my graphical breakdown of the motions.
I've inserted my own GIT builder page in preparation for the consolidating page (which I have yet to write) for those of you that can't wait! DavidC's Page includes the pictures I have to date of the GIT I'm working on, and a bit of run on about the GIT's discovery and "ruminations" and such. This was added at 5:30 am, Sunday October 5, 1997
A. H. Forge saw my plea for pictures and particulars for his double conic test GIT, and wrote me that he will send the info via snail mail (from another country, no return address, he's more paranoid than I am!) in the near future, and I will give him a page to post the pictures and results. At a 5 kilogram thrust measured scientifically, he has produced the most powerful GIT to date, and is the first to build a double conic version. See previous update (16) for more details on Mr. Forge's GIT.
SO that makes 5 proven GITs to date, and I will have 5 "GIT Builders" pages to celebrate these historic events as I can get them to you. I want to add Amanda Jane Gilbert to the crew of this new science for her geared version of the GIT, and while she hasn't yet built a device in the "real" world, her efforts and invention improvement are a milestone that helps solve one of the potential failures of the GITs to date before her addition. I'm still waiting for her permission to do so, and will model her device to show you graphically what she describes.
The world's GIT team is growing! Oh sure, there are other devices in the world, and under construction, but if those "big boy" companies and government research centers don't share their results with us, it doesn't count as far as I'm concerned!
One big aerospace company took 712 files last month on five servers (now calling files from facilities around the country), and are coming back for my updates for the third month! I quit pointing out individual companies a while back, but you know who it is.
To relieve myself of the responsability (and potential liability) I have found that my statistics can be called up by anybody, and as such is public information. If you (or your company) want to find out who's looking (a BUNCH of your competition is getting their GIT fix, so your "secret" ain't very secret any more, so talk to me!), you can access my stats directly at:
http://www.open.org/memberstats.html
In the box provided, type in my user name ( /davidc ), click on the report button, and wait a while, my stats are HUGE, and will take a while for the cgi program to add them up, especially at the end of the month. PLEASE USE THIS SPARINGLY! I was informed that stats take up a large portion of cpu time on my server, and if the thousands who visit my site monthly start checking every day to see who's looking today, that privilege will get shut off, and if I lose stats I'll throw a tantrum! (You don't want to see a 43 year old man throw a tantrum now do you?)
Your best bet is to call it a day before the end of the month (stats are additive over the month), just a guess, but there are folks that will want a complete list, and just before midnight last day, I want that list, so have a heart and get yours before 10 pm.
I think you commercial readers will be interested in all of your competition, the list is rather all inclusive of nearly every aerospace, satellite, and space company, and the interest is spreading among automotive and heavy equipment manufacturers as well.
Stats for September included 44,637 files called by 2,484 servers for an average of 1,513 files per day! WOW!
I suppose I won't get in trouble by telling you just the public organizations calling my files, so here's a list of government sites that are keeping tabs on this project:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab, Ames Research Center (NASA), Lewis Research Center (NASA), Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA), JPL Labs (NASA), Kennedy Space Center (NASA), Gordon Space Flight Center (NASA), Langley (NASA), National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Renewable Energy Labratory (INteresting! Do you think they found my Ongoing Experiment page?), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Commerce, Bonneville Power Administration, 6+ Air Force servers, 2+ Army Servers, 3+ Navy servers, a Marines server, some .mil domains I haven't resolve yet (like disa.mil), the House of representatives (374 files last month!), and the Senate servers have been looking into the GIT! Hmmmm......You'ld think SOMEone from one of those places would get into contact with me! WHAT!, they think it's a SECRET?? !!!!!
This month is off to a rousing start with over 4,000 files out in the first two days, a very high percentage of my called files are now sites just coming back for my updates (usually 3 files called), so a lot of new folks are coming in for the whole enchilada (or at least a generous helping).
OK so I'm BRAGGING! Hey! if you read my first updates, you'll understand that I began this project rather timidly and paranoid to the max, and all this attention has made me feel a LOT better, so bear with me as I celebrate!
So is there room for the garage inventor to try to improve on my device given all the attention? YOU BET! Most of the "big boys" and government research facilities are moribund and SLOW, not able to be as flexible and creative as uhmmmm.... for instance, some guy in Oregon with a little plaster, ball bearings and a salvaged turntable motor, challenged by stupid words like "impossible"! GO FOR IT!
I will be consolidating my previous updates into a collection of history pages, annotating the milestones along with the writings of the time, so if you want original works, get them now, I will remove redundant info and, of neccessity the various backgrounds will disappear. Even with the removal of SaucerAd.avi (if you want me to mail you a copy, just ask), my site is creeping back to the 5 meg limit way to fast with all the new photos and renderings already added and planned, so I'm going to have to start slashing.
OH! the JJ page is in the works, I've yet to hear from Mr. Ellingsworth on his page particulars and that same roll of film also has photos of my own efforts on my Next GIT, so check back to the site about the middle of the week to find a new "GIT Builders" page link in my index, where I will link in all the individual pages of Mama Earth's GIT team. I will include a link to my own constructions on that page of course, I'm one of the team!
Stay Tuned! - David Eugene Cowlishaw - 3 October 1997 - 10:30 am
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