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 :

  1. The Lifter must lift 100 g of additional payload ( lead ) for about 5 seconds in a stable hovering,
  2. the challenge is worldwide open to anyone,
  3. there is no limit ( in height, in width, weight ) in the size of the Lifter,
  4. 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,
  5. the use of a dielectric material is allowed,
  6. the Lifter can be powered by an external power supply ( outside the Lifter device ),
  7. the High Voltage can be supplied through thin copper wire to each armature of the Lifter,
  8. any kind of High Voltage power supplies ( DC, AC, pulsed, Tesla coil... ) can be used for the competition,
  9. for safety reasons, the Lifter must be maintained on the ground through thin nylon wires during the tests,
  10. the efficiency ( thrust/power ratio ) is not taken in account in this 1st worldwide Lifters competition,
  11. 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,
  12. 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 ),
  13. a photo of the 100g of payload on a electronic scale must be provided by the competitor,
  14. the 100g of payload must clearly be seen on the Lifter during the 5 seconds flight video movie,
  15. all the technical informations of the Lifter device must be published for free and are copyrighted by his builder,
  16. 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

March 21, 2003 : SAVIOUR from Blaze Labs is the WINNER of the 100g of Payload CHALLENGE
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click here to see the full details of the experiment )

----- click on the pictures to see more details ------ Lifter Builder Max. Size Total Weight Payload

SAVIOUR

2000 mm

185 g

100 g

JL Naudin

1200 mm

250 g

60 g

JL Naudin

1200 mm

194 g

60 g

JL Naudin

800 mm

90 g

40 g

JL Naudin

600 mm

44 g

20 g

Saviour

400 mm

30 g

19 g

JL Naudin

400 mm

24 g

10 g


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