Recent content by Ray Payette

You contradict yourself. First of all you state that satellites use reaction torque now. Yes they do, they use reaction wheels to maintain their attitude. They don’t have to push against anything to do this. So you implicitly agree that a rotary means of propulsion is not only feasible, it is in...

It should work in space because it doen't interact with the environment at all; it needs no air to move or surgace to push in order to work. Try the latest Microsoft Media Player. There are 23 megs .mpg files so you might need to delete your temporary internet files as the TIP suggests.

There are no propellers, only wooden rods that don't displace much air; they cannot possibly provide the hovercraft's propulsion. The energy from the battery is converted to kinetic energy. Energy is used up from the battery. I suspended the device on a cushion of air that provides more...

That's a new one, the physics in space are different. Since you are well versed in that subject, could tou please give me a reference that would state that.

Perhaps cars are faster and more efficient here on earth, but they don't work in space. This form of propulsion is an alternative to rockets.

Exactly, at the same time the motor turns the load the hovercraft turns in the opposite direction.

The actions are rotating loads. A motor that turns a load produces a rotating force, in other words a couple. This has to be compensated by an equal and opposite reaction, in this case a couple that turns the hovercraft in the opposite direction. That is the essence of the device. A motor turns...

I never claimed that it doesn't require energy. Where did that notion come from? The model uses a 9 volt battery and it creates no energy whatsoever. The model is a hovercraft that floats on a cushion of air. That is not what propels it.

This is not an anti-gravity device!

I do agree that more testing is in order, however I do not have the ressources nor the funding to do serious research. Thanks anyhow!

I do not have the scientific credibility doesn't mean I know nothing about physics. It means that I don't have official degrees that can attest to it. Historically that has been a trait of many inventors, starting with Edison. I don't rely on scientists and engineers to tell me it doesn't work...

krab, the hovercraft advances because because of reaction couple reactions, in other words each motor turns a loads thereby producing couples; the hovercraft turns in the opposite direction. The law of conservation of momentum is strictly followed. When this is done in succession by two similar...

Patent Process You may ask why didn't I propose my project to obtain R&D funding? First, I didn't have ANY scientific credibility so it is very likely that I would vave been refused however good the idea is. Secondly any disclosure of the invention would automatically forfeit any rights to it...

To HallsofIvy, You want to look at actual pictures, please look at my videos: http://www.spacecrab.com/images/FrictionTest.mpg and others on the Web site.

I recognize that I lack the scientific credibility, but I don't have 3 years to devote to learn it (at a basic level). My strategy is to interest people that are much more qualified than me to do the scientific research. True my model vibrates, that is the essence of my invention; I could not...