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MYSTERY PROPULSION IPLANE
SIGHTED
By Peter Nielsen
This story was told to me by an inventor
friend living in Phoenix, Arizona. It dates
back to the 19505, 'and would seem to prove
the post-war existence of secret aviation
technologies.
One day he received an excited phone call
from a flight mechanic at the local airpon.
"You better come down here straight
away-something really strange is going
on." Upon arriving, an aircraft was pointed
out, cordoned off at lhe far end of the
hangars. It was a OC-3, the leading propel
lor-driven cummercial plane of that era.
Suspicion was aroused by its complete lack
of external markings. Workers in equally
plain jumpsuits s.eemed to be making hurried
repairs inside the cabin.
Approaching as close as possible, the
mechanic asked a co-worker what was hap
pening. The answer was, "I don't know
what it's all about, but that plane's got the
weirdest instrument panel I've ever seen."
After a shon time, the crew boarded, and a
low whining sound emerged from within the
fuselage. It increased gradually in pitch
until it rose above .the range of human hear
ing. In silence, the plane then taxied out to
the runway and took off. There was no
noise or evidence of jet power -no openings
or exhaust. Only at an altitude of several
hundred feet were the two conventional
engines 'push-started'. The sole clue to the
plane's identity was printed in small letters
beneath the cockpit window: "Solar Labs".
On another occasion, he related the fol
lowing incide.nt which occurred while work
ing for the government on an early experi
mental jet engine. A turbine assembly was
put under high-speed rotation for laboratory
stress-testing. Suddenly, a ball-bearing
broke free inside the hollow aluminium
rotor. After emergency shutdown, they
found the steel ball had been worn to a frac
tion of (ts original size! In other words, the
normally softer aluminium, itself unscarred,
became somehow 'harder' than steel...but
only while rotating. One might attribute this
to some unknown inertial alteration of its
atomic structur~. Could an external com
pensatory force, similar to that produced by
a polarisoo magnet or spinning gyroscope,
be another by-product of this strange anom
aly? If ISO, would it be strong enough to
repulse the earth's mass, offering the
JUNE -JULY 1993 prospect of non-conventional flight?
One more thing. At a certain speed, the
tes~ rig would cause anyone nearby to invol
untarily urinate. Such reactions are typical
of organic resonance, as can be stimlliated
with microwave exposure. Was the mecha
nism inadvenently caused to emit radiation
at its own wavelength falling within this
range?
And, finally, is it mere coincidence that
modern UFOs appeared at about the same
time as jet engines and radar (microwave)
technology? How many times have we pon
dered over those reports of spiral patterns,
matter grab, AND microwave-like bums at
UFO landing sites? Come to think ofit, a
saucer shape, with its contoured radial sym
metry, is a near-perfect resonator, or lens.
That is, the longest distance across its sur
face, from and back to any single point,
would be the same, thus produCing a uni
form wave when sympathetically energised
at the appropriate frequency. By inverse
logic, would this alone cause it to spin?
Is there some connection? Maybe not.
But, in iater years, this same scientist went
on to develop an anti-gravity system, which
I have no reason to doubt, but which was
never fully revealed due to ethical concerns.
Still, it would be an interesting experiment
to spin a disc, electrically pumped at its
structural resonance, and measure for weight
loss. Anyone with ample funding interest
ed?
HOME INVENTOR BAFFLES
THE WORLD WITH HIS PLAS
TIC FANTASTIC
A former Yorkshire
hairdresser has baffled
military and scientific
establishments across
the world by producing ,"-I a magical piece of plas
tic that is so tough it can
withstand the heat of a
nuclear explosion.
Experiments at the
Ministry of Defence's
(MoD) Atomic
Weapons Establishment
at Foulness, Essex, and
by NATO scientists at
the US missile range at
White Sands, New
Mexico, have shown
that the substance withstood simulated nuclear flashes which gen
erated temperatures of more than 1000
degrees Celsius.
The tests' results, published tomorrow for
the first time in International Defence
Review, published by Jane's, are leading
chastened scientific communities on both
sides of the Atlantic to a strange and hum
bling conclusion: that an English mventor
without a degree tinkered around in his labo
ratory for a few years to stwnble on a secret
for which nuclear physicists had spent
decades searching.
Once dismissed as a crank with a plastic
bee in his bonnet, Maurice Ward now fmds
himself the toast of the military-industrial
complexes of Britain and America with the
polymer he calls Starlite.
Nobody, least of all Mr Ward, really
knows how Starlite works (only selected
members of his family know the full ingre
dients), but the properties which his mysteri
ous plastic displays are impressively self
evident.
Mr Ward first brought them to public
notice three years ago on BBC's Tomorrow's
World programme when he cQated the shell
of a raw chicken egg with his substance.
Despite blasting the egg with an oxyacety
lene welding torch, it remained uncooked,
undamaged and could be handled with bare
fmgers immediately afterwards.
In MoD laser tests during October 1990,
0.25 mm thickness of Starlite contained the
energy of the equivalent of 75 nuclear flash
es for 30 seconds.
But whatever Starlite-a name thought up