From : ur-valhalla!wwa.com!robert (Robert Stirniman )
Subj : AntiGrav Article - Jane's 1995
Date : Wed, 22 Nov 1995 15:52:50 -0600 (CST)

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      Anti-Gravity for Real -- Discussed in Jane's Defence Weekly

Jane's Defence Weekly of 10 June 1995, has an article about advanced
aerospace technologies, written by Nick Cook. The idea of anti-gravity
is taken seriously and is auspicously present throught the article --
including three artist renditions of future anti-gravity based craft.

The Jane's article commences with a mention of anti-gravity
technology, and also ends with a few paragraphs discussing anti-
gravity. In between is the bulk of the article, which consists of
discussion of "conventional" subjects, including: Hypersonics, Gas
Turbine Inrements, The Super Cockpit, and Stealth.

At the start of the Jane's article there is some information from the
Gravity Rand Report on Electrogravitics which was done for the USAF in
1956, and was recently declassified. Here's an excerpt from the
beginning of the Jane's article.

   Take this example from a specialist US aviation magazine in
   1956. "We're already working with equipment to cancel out
   gravity," Lawrence D Bell, founder of the company that bears
   his name was quoted as saying. Bell, apparently, was not the
   only one working in this field. Others said to be seeking to
   master this arcane 'science' included the Glenn L Martin
   Company, Convair, Lear, and Sperry Gyroscope. Within a few
   years we were assured, aircraft, cars, submarines and power
   stations would all be driven by this radical new propulsion
   technology. Sadly it was not to be.

Here's the ending section of the Jane's article.

   BEYOND 2001
   Groom Lake Nevada is the epicentre of classified USAF research
   into Stealth and other exotic aerospace technologies. Several
   years after the collapse of the Soviet threat, activity and
   investment at this remote, highly secret air base (so secret
   its prescence is, as yet, unacknowledged by the US government)
   is still on the increase. While research nto less sensitive
   technologies such two-dimensional thrust-vectoring and advanced
   short take-off and vertical landing (ASTOVL) are pursued in the
   open at nearby Edwards AFB in California, Groom Lake is set to
   hang onto its secrets. The USAF's recent confiscation of 1600
   acres of public land bordering the facility is consistent with
   the Pentagon's desire to maintain its lead in quantum leap
   technologies -- some of which, according to well qualified
   observers in and around the Nevada area, defy current thinking
   into the predicted direction of aerospace engineering.

   That aerospace ocmpanies continue to look at highly radical
   alternative air vehicle concepts is evidence of the ongoing
   quest for breakthrough designs. Glimpses into this world are
   rare, but provide some insight into likely 21st century research
   activity. The 1990 unclassified 'Electric Propulsion Study'
   (a quest for antigravity propulsion system by another name)
   conducted by the USA's Science Application International Corp
   (SAIC) on behalf of USAF's then Astronautics Laboratory at
   Edwards AFB shows that USAF visionaries are still being given
   free reign. Until recently BAe (British Aerospace) also provided
   internal resources for its own anti-gravity studies and even
   went so far as to outline this thinking with artists' concepts --
   a case of Lawrence Bell's vision perhaps being not so wide of
   the mark after all.

   Before he died, Ben Rich, who headed Lockheed's Skunk Works from
   1975-1991, was quoted as saying: "We have some new things. We are
   not stagnating. What we are doing is updating ourselves, without
   advertising. There are some new programmes, and there are certain
   things -- some of them 20 to 30 years old -- that are still
   breakthroughs and appropriate to keep quiet about. Other people
   don't have them yet.

   Thirty years from now, we may still not know the half of what is
   currently being tested in and around Groom Lake.

Copyright 1995, Jane's Deence Weekly, All rights reserved.

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I have attained a copy of the table of contents from the 'Electric
Propulsion Study' which is mentioned in the Jane's article. This study
was prepared for the USAF by a scientist at SAIC. It has some familiar
names and ideas to those of us who have been researching the fringe
science of anti-gravity. I am looking forward to attaining a copy of
the report.

Regards,
Robert Stirniman  (robert@wwa.com)

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