Airship4

June 18, 1991
AIRSHIP4.ASC

Prior to meeting Wally Chariton, I had read his book the TEXAS
AIRSHIP MYSTERY and got to thinking about practical methods to
duplicate many of the airship sightings.

After generating this file, I gave him a copy to see what he thought
about it. We also discussed Keely and other flight possiblities.
Wally said he "wished he had known all this BEFORE writing his book"
and he would have included much of it as additional information in
his book.

Analysis of the 1897 Airships -- November 18, 1990
(inspired by Wallace Chariton's "Texas Airship Mystery")
by Jerry W. Decker at KeelyNet 214-324-3501

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Observations about possible technologies used in the 1897 airships.

There are several different modes of flight covered in the combined
case histories of these mystery airships.

1) the Winged airship - uses wings which flap to provide lift
as well as propulsion and steering

2) the Gas airship - uses a form of gasbag for lift
and wings or propellers for propulsion
and steering

3) the Aero airship - uses a sophisticated type of air
moving engine in conjunction with the
aerodynamic shape of the ship for both
lift and propulsion

4) the Magnetic airship - uses an unknown form of magnetic,
Aether or neutral center technology
for lift and propulsion

the Winged Airship

The Winged airship copies the form of a bird wing in a vastly larger
size as based on the descriptions of the wings witnessed. It is
possible that a wing surface might be constructed of a sufficiently
light material and with the proper "feathering" movements.

This "feathering" movement would follow the natural pattern of the
bird wing in that separate thin plates would be hinged so that a
wing moving in a downward motion would cause the plate to take a
horizontal position for maximum air movement.

When the wing moved up, the hinged plate would assume a vertical
position for the minimum resistance to air flow. The speed of the
wing up and down movement would depend on the wing surface area and
the thrust velocity necessary to lift the payload.

Though inefficient when compared to propellers or jets, such a
device would fly. There are available today, mechanical models of
birds which fly using just such a flapping motion.

the Gas Airship

The first airship in modern times was flown by the Montgolfiers in
1783. It used hot air although other lifting gases such as coal gas
and hydrogen were used.

Helium was first discovered by Lockyer in 1868 while viewing the
yellow spectral lines of sodium in rays from the sun. Helium was
first produced on Earth by Ramsay in 1895 from the mineral clevite.

One case in particular mentions a "secret" gas extracted from air
passing through chambers containing certain chemicals.

In this case, the airship is said to be both propelled and sustained
by a gas which had the property of great compressibility under a
slight pressure and a correspondingly great power of expansion.
Helium fits this description.

Chemistry rates the elements in order of Terrestrial Abundance and
Cosmic Abundance. In terms of Terrestrial Abundance, Helium has no
listing, yet in terms of Cosmic Abundance, Hydrogen is listed as 3.5
times 10 to the 8th or 350,000,000 followed closely by Helium at 3.5
times 10 to the 7th or 35,000,000.

Now Helium being such a very light gas, must surely be present in
quantity in the upper stratosphere of the Earth. Since Hydrogen and
Oxygen are both present in our air, Helium must also be present
though somewhat rarified. It is not so improbable that a process
could be envisioned which could remove Helium DIRECTLY from the air.

Another possibility can be seen in work which Nikola Tesla carried
out prior to the turn of the 20th century. It involved a device
known as a Tesla Turbine and could compress air to capture Ozone in
a highly condensed state.

Tesla indicated that this compressed Ozone was highly efficient AS A
MOTIVE FORCE. In fact, Tesla designed a flying device based on this
very principle, although, to my knowledge it was never built.

Oxygen as it occurs in nature is referred to as "molecular oxygen"
since it has 2 atoms. Atomic oxygen on the other hand has only 1
atom and is extremely rare due to its tendency to attach to almost
anything. This is the basis for the "free radical" theory of aging.

Ozone is oxygen with 3 or more oxygen atoms. It is formed by
electrical excitation or ionizing radiation in the form of
ultraviolet light.

This excitation causes the disruption of some molecular oxygen
groupings to generate free radicals which bond to the more stable
molecular oxygen groupings.

Of course, the Ozone layer is the hot topic for the past couple of
years so we know that Ozone could be used as a lifting or propulsive
gas.

the Aero Airship

This type of airship is most intriguing. It indicates that the
inventor had a very sophisticated understanding of aerodynamic
principles.

A German Aeronautical engineer came up with a form of propulsion in
the late 40's and early 50's which he termed an AERODYNE. Not an
airplane, since it took full advantage of aerodynamic principles.

The body of the ship was an inverted teardrop over which was
suspended a propeller, jet or source of high air movement.

Using the principle of BOUNDARY LAYER DRAG, the moving air was
ENTRAINED to the surface of the inverted teardrop to form a jet of
highly collimated air as it exited the tip of the teardrop.

The Boundary Layer was first discovered by Prandtl in the early
1900's. His work was further improved upon by Tesla, Coanda and
Venturi.

Basically, any rapidly moving fluid, including air will "stick" to
the surface of a mass and generate miniature whirlpools which tend
to slow down the movement of the air. If the mass is to be moved
through the air or fluid, then the body of the mass should be
designed as efficiently as possible to minimize this drag.

Note that many of the airship cases and one in particular show the
shape of the ship to be a "Mexican cigar" or a cylinder which tapers
to a point on each end.

This ship provided a most fascinating description of something
called a SNAIL-SHELL DEVICE.

"At each end of the ship is a large steel snail-shell device,
which was the apparatus by which the strange machine was
PROPELLED.

Large gasoline engines caused whichever of these are in use
to REVOLVE RAPIDLY, and to BORE THROUGH THE AIR, dragging or
pulling the ship along at a wonderful rate of speed."

"Two more of these devices are attached to each side and near
the end of the ship and ARE USED FOR STEERING."

"To RAISE THE MACHINE, a like apparatus ON TOP is set in
motion."

The ship was described as being cigar-shaped, about 200 feet long,
and 50 feet across at the widest point, gradually narrowing to a
point at both ends.

At each end of the ship was a LARGE STEEL SNAIL-SHELL DEVICE that
was used to propel the strange machine.

Now anyone who is familiar with natural geometry knows of the
Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio (PHI). The Fibonacci series begins
with 1, add another 1 to yield 2, then add the last two numbers to
get the next in the series.

Thus, 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,...etc.. Examples of this series
occurs in Nature in the form of spirals of tiny florets in the core
of daisy blossoms, pine cones, pineapples, seashells, leaves and a
host of other areas. These patterns occur in both clockwise and
counter-clockwise flows.

Once the number 3 is passed in the Fibonacci series, we come to the
ratio known as the Golden Ratio. This is 1:1.618.

During the early part of the 20th century, Victor Schauberger
studied the flow of water and the motion of fish. He discovered a
principle which he termed IMPLOSION.

Schauberger says that man uses EXPLOSIVE techniques in his devices
which generate heat, are inefficient and destructive to Nature.
IMPLOSION on the other hand, generates cold, is overly efficient
(>100%) and is constructive in Nature.

Now, a spiral built on the Snail shell principle would take
advantage of this IMPLOSION for tremendous if not over-unity
efficiencies. Therefore, not much energy would be required to
operate the engines.

So here we have an airship built using the AERODYNE principles in
addition to the IMPLOSION spiral principle.

the Magnetic Airship

This is another intriguing concept mentioned in the Wilson airship
case. The wheel rim seems to be the key to understanding the
propulsive mechanism of this device. The description follows:

"To elevate or depress the ship while flying through the air a
small wheel at the stern of the boat is operated.

This wheel is something like that in a ship's pilot house,
but instead of having spokes there was an arrangement of
MAGNETS connected with wires to storage batteries.

BY PASSING THE CURRENT OVER THE TIRE OF THE WHEEL, the
operator was ABLE TO OVERCOME GRAVITY THUS ELEVATING THE SHIP.

BY PASSING THE CURRENT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND UNDER THE
TIRE THE WEIGHT OF THE SHIP WAS INCREASED and could sink like
a shot to the earth,

and by passing the currents in OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AT THE SAME
TIME, the vessel would remain HORIZONTAL AT ANY DISTANCE FROM
THE EARTH."

I believe this uses the principle of the neutral center as
discovered and developed by John W. Keely in the late 1900's.

Basically, it creates an artificial center of gravity which moves at
a greater velocity than the natural center of gravity. By altering
the physical position of the artificial center in relation to the
fixed natural center, the ship will follow that movement in ANY
DIRECTION.

This involves relatively radical concepts which are laced throughout
KeelyNet.

Vanguard note

What we find most intriguing is that John W. Keely, namesake of
the KeelyNet BBS, had demonstrated a flying machine to the US
ARMY in 1893. After the Army turned down Keely's offer of the
flying machine, little is mentioned of what happened to it or
the research pertaining to it.

Not to add fuel to any conspiracy but we have found something
disturbing in regard to the book written by Clara Bloomfield
Moore on Keely in the late 1890's. The title is "Aerial
Navigation" and was intended to promote Keely's concepts
PARTICULARLY in regard to the system of flight as evinced by
the title.

Through the gracious sharing of Mr. Victor Hansen, we were
allowed to copy THE MISSING CHAPTERS of the book, which were
INTENTIONALLY REMOVED from a re-issued version of the book
sometime in the very late 1890's or early 1900's. We have no
idea who might have done this but it could be reasonably
assumed that someone did not want Keely's information in the
public eye.

Note that only 4 years after this, the Airship sightings took
place with indications of a secret group of investors
sponsoring the research and testing as hinted at in some of the
pilot interviews.

The information gleaned from the interviews with the pilots of
these machines provides very little in the way of technical
information although what is offered is most tantalizing.

Despite the dated sighting (1897), the surviving information
suggests the existence of at least one group of individuals who
seem to have kept the technology hidden.

Perhaps the UFO phenomenon is indeed intentional misdirection
on the part of these individuals to keep investigators from
discovering the true source (and technology) relating to anti-
gravity and free energy. Of course, other vested interests
might also take actions to suppress such technologies which
simply add to the problems.

Speculation can easily run rampant when confronted with
information such as this and as shown in the most excellent
book "Genesis" by W. A. Harbinson. The book is definitely
science fiction yet weaves much of the factual information into
an amazing story.

It hints that one of the pilots of the airships giving the name
Wilson might have developed a highly sophisticated and secret
community which survives even to this day in the frozen wastes
of Anti-Antartica.

Would that Harbinson had information on Keely, he could have
easily substituted Keely for Wilson without missing a beat.
The analogies are striking. However, Keely is recorded as
dying in 1898 although conversations with other Keely
researchers speculate on the possibility that he did not die.

Additional information listed on KeelyNet which relate to the
mystery Airship sightings of 1897 are listed as follows :

1) AIRSHIP1 - the missing chapter from Bloomfield Moore's
book giving a relatively detailed description of
Keely's flying machine
2) AIRSHIP2 - a synopsis of the 1897 sightings including the
Keely link
3) AIRSHIP3 - a description of Keely's demonstration of his
flying machine to the US ARMY in 1893
4) AIR1GIF - two scanned versions of Keely's airship, the
first is a copy of the original picture given to
us by Victor Hansen, the second is a graphic
version of the same picture