Saturday October 12th
, 2002
1st
Worldwide Lifters competition by JLN Labs
Towards
100 g of Payload,
the race is
open...
This is a worldwide competition
open to all Lifter experimenters, the challenge is to
build a Lifter device which will be able to lift 100 g of
additional payload for about 5 seconds in a stable
hovering.
Competition Rules
:
- The Lifter must lift 100 g
of additional
payload ( lead ) for about 5 seconds in a stable
hovering,
- the challenge is worldwide
open to anyone,
- there is no limit ( in
height, in width, weight ) in the size of the
Lifter,
- the Lifter design must use
the principle of the Townsend Brown asymmetrical
capacitor fully described in his US Patent N°2949550 "Elektrokinetic Apparatus"
fig 1 and 2 : The
device is composed by a thin wire placed in front
of a conductive plate and powered by a High
Voltage power supply,
- the use of a dielectric material is
allowed,
- the Lifter can be powered
by an external power supply ( outside the Lifter
device ),
- the High Voltage can be
supplied through thin copper wire to each
armature of the Lifter,
- any kind of High Voltage
power supplies ( DC, AC, pulsed, Tesla coil... )
can be used for the competition,
- for safety reasons, the
Lifter must be maintained on the ground through
thin nylon wires during the tests,
- the efficiency (
thrust/power ratio ) is not
taken in account in this 1st
worldwide Lifters competition,
- the competitor must
provide all the datas about his Lifter ( size,
type of material used, wire diameter ) and a full
detailled diagram of his device,
- the competitor must
provide detailled photos of his Lifter in
levitation and a video ( in mpeg, avi or
realvideo format ) of his device in a stable
hoovering for at least 5 seconds ( with its 100g
of payload ),
- a photo of the 100g of
payload on a electronic scale must be provided by
the competitor,
- the 100g of payload must
clearly be seen on the Lifter during the 5
seconds flight video movie,
- all the technical
informations of the Lifter device must be
published for free and are copyrighted by his
builder,
- all the devices in
challenge will published free in a dedicated page
of JLN Labs
web site and the competitors will be sorted in
real time during the competition.
Call for Prize offer
: I encourage any sponsor who
desires to encourage and promote this Worldwide
open Lifters competition to send
some Prize proposal to JLN
Labs and I
shall publish these Prize offers in a dedicated page of
the JLN labs
web site at : http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftchallenge.htm
On october 12th, 2002, there is
no date fixed for the close of this competition, the date
will be fixed and published at least one month before the
close of this competition.
Now, ready for the challenge,
Towards 100g of payload....
Jean-Louis Naudin ( october
12th, 2002 )
Email :
Jnaudin509@aol.com
JLN Labs web site : http://www.jlnlabs.org
Lifter Project web site : http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifters.htm
Download this document in PDF :
http://jnaudin.free.fr/files/lifters_competition.pdf
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