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<\/a>Townsend Brown flying his discs at the S.N.C.A.S.O. facility outside of Paris. \u00a0(photo courtesy of J. Cornillon)<\/p><\/div>\n
In 1955 and 1956 Townsend Brown made two trips to Paris where he conducted tests of his electrokinetic apparatus\u00a0and electrogravitic vacuum chamber tests\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0the French aeronautical company Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 National de Construction Aeronautiques du Sud Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) . \u00a0He was invited there by\u00a0Jacques Cornillon, the company’s U.S. technical representative. \u00a0The project was named Project Montgolfier in honor of the two French brother inventors who performed early aircraft flights. \u00a0 The project continued for several years until the company changed ownership resulting in a final report which was written up in 1959.<\/p>\n
Details of the Project Montgolfier experiments remained a closely guarded secret for many years until Jacques Cornillon courageously decided to make them public prior to his death in July 2008. \u00a0 Brown’s proposal, the Montgolier Project’s top secret final report, and an assortment of revealing diagrams will be\u00a0posted here shortly. \u00a0Brown’s proposal is in English, whereas the secret Montgolfier Project final report is in French.<\/p>\n
The flying disc carousel experiment that the Montgolfier Project conducted in 1955 used 2-1\/2 foot diameter discs (75 cm dia.) hung from 4 meter tethers suspended from the ends of a 3 meter arm. \u00a0Based on the description given, this seems to have been almost the same flying disc test that Brown gave to the Navy at Pearl Harbor\u00a0a year or two earlier.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Left: Brown holding a flying disc tested in Project Montgolfier. Right: Close-up of disc showing outboard leading-edge wire. (photos courtesy of J. Cornillon)<\/p><\/div>\n
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Based on the angle of the disc suspension cable seen in the photo on the right\u00a0below, one may estimate that the disc was traveling at a speed of ~8.7 meters per second, or about 20 mph. \u00a0It would have completed one revolution of its 18 meter course in 2 seconds.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Left: Carrousel test rig. Right: Disc in flight. (photos courtesy of J. Cornillon)<\/p><\/div>\n
Brown had finished his collaboration with\u00a0S.N.C.A.S.O. in 1956. \u00a0From a letter that Mr. Cornillon later wrote to a colleague, we learn that in October 1957\u00a0Brown was in the process of test flying 10 foot diameter discs energized at a voltage of 300 kV! \u00a0Here we see that Brown had followed the plan he had first set out in his 1952 Project Winterhaven<\/a> proposal which was to eventually test fly a ten foot diameter disc powered by 500 kV (70% more voltage than he used in his 1957 test flight). \u00a0\u00a0Hence we see that by this early date Brown had progressed beyond the toy model\u00a0stage\u00a0to flying small scale aircraft. \u00a0To reach this stage he must have been receiving substantial funding from either the military or from a major corporation. \u00a0More about Project Winterhaven and Brown’s research may be found in the book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n In addition the Project Montgolfier team constructed a very large vacuum chamber for performing vacuum tests of smaller discs at a pressure of 5 X 10-5<\/sup> mm Hg; see below.<\/p>\n Left: Vacuum chamber vessel (1.4 m diameter) for conducting electrogravitic tests. Right: Vessel opened to show test rotor rig within. (photos courtesy of J. Cornillon)<\/p><\/div>\n In reading the section describing the vacuum chamber results, we learn that when the discs are operated at atmospheric pressure they move in the direction of the leading edge wire regardless of outboard wire polarity. \u00a0This indicates that in normal atmospheric conditions the discs are propelled forward primarily by unbalanced electrostatic forces due to the prevailing nonlinear field configuration (which causes thrust in the direction of the low field intensity ion cloud regardless of the ion polarity). \u00a0On the other hand, the report says that under high vacuum conditions the discs always moved in the direction of the positive pole, regardless of the polarity on the outboard wire. \u00a0This indicates that in the absence of the unbalanced forces exerted by ion clouds, the discs moved mainly on the basis of the electrogravitic field effect, always toward the positive (negative G) direction.<\/p>\n These vacuum chamber experiments were a decisive milestone in that they demonstrated beyond a doubt that electrogravitic propulsion was a real physical phenomenon. \u00a0The report concludes saying: “It seems perfectly reasonable to conclude that a concentrated force of some kind accumulates within the presence of a strong dielectric.” (i.e., presumably in the presence of a high-K dielectric.)<\/p>\n For more information see:\u00a0https:\/\/soipost.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/07\/project-montgolfier-the-biefeld-brown-and-the-flying-saucer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1955 and 1956 Townsend Brown made two trips to Paris where he conducted tests of his electrokinetic apparatus\u00a0and electrogravitic vacuum chamber tests\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0the French aeronautical company Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 National de Construction Aeronautiques du Sud Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) . \u00a0He was invited there by\u00a0Jacques Cornillon, the company’s U.S. technical representative. \u2026 Continue reading <\/a>