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Bonjour,

My name is Jaroslaw Binczarowski, I am an engineering student at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada and I have sucessfully built your lifter on May 31, 2005.

I used a computer monitor, and instead of balsa, I used a foam tray.   If possible, I would enjoy being on your registered list (#310)  

Keep up the good work!

Bonjour,

Ca y est mon lifter lévite !!! Que d'émotion lorsque je l'ai vu volé pour la première fois !

Je vous remercie pour votre aide et je prends les photos demain puis je vous les enverrai.

Merci encore pour tout et je vous ferai parvenir tout mon travil dès que je l'aurai terminé.

Voilà !
Chose promise, chose dûe , je vous envoie après plusieurs efforts une photo de mon lifter en lévitation!
Merci encore pour toute votre aide et je vous ferai parveir mon compte-rendu dès que je l'aurai terminé.

Mes Salutations,
BENZEBIBA Naïm.

Dear Naudin,

I hopeyou have room for my pictures of my lifter too. I have never sent you any picture of my lifters before. PS. I need 45 mm between the wire and the aluminumfoil, to prevent arcing.  

Regards Svein

Bonjour Monsieur Naudin,

Voici les images du vol de ma replique de lifter1 en pièces attachées à ce message, sachant que je soupçonne mon generateur de THT d'être un peu faiblard (récup!) ce qui m'a obligé à reconstruire le module (le premier était construit au standard aero mais un peu lourd, il se soulevait mais ne volait pas, le deuxième est quasi immatériel, il porte deux fois son propre poids, mais je n'ai pas réussi à lui faire adopter un regime de vol stable). 

Meilleures salutations.
                                           Jean-Luc Soullier (Nice, France)

Hello Jean Louis Naudin.

In the last two weeks I have build 3 different models (triangle), but this one has a stable flight, I called it the "Quattro". I intend now to make the Hexa lifter and will do more experiments with the voltage at AC and DC. I use a variac to regulate the voltage, when the monitor works between 80-130 volt AC input, you can have some effect on the flight.   You will hear (see) more if there is.

Greatings,
Bastiaan J Chervet

Merci beaucoup pour l aide et l attention que vous avez porter a la création de notre TPE

ci joint nos vidéos représentant l'évolution du projet , je n ai pu vous fournier le diaporama car la totalité de notre tpe est bcp trop importante pour etre envoyer par email,

merciii et bonne continuation

Barth et Ceri  

Hello, Jean-Louis!
       Here are three pictures of my lifter in working order. (One of which features me on the left.)  It was thrilling to experience my first lifter take-off, and I plan to continue my study of this young scientific field.  I have not previously mentioned that I am 16 years of age, none the less, I am intensely interested in physics and I plan to make a career of it.  This experience was my first practical use of high voltage, and I enjoyed every moment!  I wish you the best in your studies and experiments!

                          Embracing new horizons,
                                                                            
                    Davin H. Riedstra

Dear Jean Louis Naudin,

We have lunched our first lifter 1.0 replication on april 06. Thanks to your drawings and explanations it was quite easy to built and to prepare the instalation for the experiment.

Thanks for this exiting experience,
Vitor Carvalho and Luiz Felipe Motta,
From Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.

I have made several successful lifters and I am now putting them in aquariums to display them safely. I found the high voltage in the lifter creates a static cling effect so I use a thin nylon thread as a guide string to keep the lifter from attaching itself to the glass. Thank you for sharing the plans to make the lifter.

Thank you,
Eugene Bunt

Hi Jean-Louis,  

Today I've successfully finished the Lifter1 experiment !  

This is my 2nd Lifter1, though the 1st one failed to fly because of the heavey weight . Now with a lighter material,according to the instructions on your site,the 2nd one's just working well.(see attach)  

Thanks you!
Regards,
Sywalt Guo (Beijing,China)

Cher Mr Naudin,

Depuis que j'ai pris connaissance de la véritable poussée ascensionnelle des lifters, j'y consacre beaucoup de temps et cela me passionne. C'est pour cette raison que j'ai décidé d'essayer d'améliorer les performances des lifters.

Pour cela j'ai réalisé trois autres lifters (car je vous avais envoyé des photos de lifter v1 et v2) : un petit triangulaire de 10 cm de côté, un hexalifter de 20 cm de côté et un lifter basique (triangulaire) de 35 cm de côté mais sans armature a l'inérieur en forme de triangle de sierpinski.

Je vous joins donc mes résultats d'expérimentations :

-le lifter de 10 cm de côté ne vole pas bien car un coin ne décolle pas. (hauteur de la jupe d'alu : 4 cm), je pense que j'ai mal pensé cette hauteur de jupe et je suis sur le point d'en créer un autre.

-l'hexalifter vole bien mais pas très vif au décollage et au long du vol. De plus il ne vole pas très haut si on allonge les fils qui le retiennent. (hauteur de la jupe d'alu : 2.5 cm) il faut dire que je n'avais pas de fil de cuivre et que ce fil corona (en fer je crois) n'a pas pu être tendu au maximum... Cela doit jouer sur le vol en plus de mon alimentation THT grâce a un moniteur de PC qui ne fournit pas assez de puissance je crois.

-Enfin le meilleur est le lifter de 35 cm de côté ! hauteur de la jupe d'alu : 2.5 cm, espace jupe/fil corona : 3.8 cm, hauteur sol/jupe : 4.5 cm. Pour tendre le fil corona j'ai fait un 'deuxieme fil corona' (pas en cuivre : du simple fil de couture ! plus léger !) mais à l'opposé du vrai. cela dans le but d'avoir une meilleure rigidité en vol et de ne pas trop forcer sur l'unique point de collage entre les baguettes verticales et les horizontales (car je n'ai pas mis d'armature de balsa en bas). Ce lifter semble vouloir "crever le plafond" à l'instar de celui de Claude Dupré.


->J'ai d'ailleurs constaté que sur vos plans de l'hexalifter, la hauteur sol/jupe d'alu n'est pas suffisante puisque j'ai décidé de l'augmenter à 5 cm car il ne volait pas. Cela a été effectif, et logique compte tenu de la théorie principale car il faut de l'air en dessous du lifter pour qu'il y ait une meilleure force ascensionnelle !

Je ne voudrais pas prendre plus de votre temps donc je vous joins quelques photos qui seront plus explicatives !

Merci de votre attention

Hello Jean-Louis Naudin

I am delighted to report the successful flight of my lifter craft named "Shuttle One".  I have been hoping to be the 300th successful lifter report on your wonderful web page.  Thanks so much to you for your fabulous website.  I study your materials every week, hoping to do more of your experiments.  The lifter in the photo is powered by a 40kV power supply from AppliedElectrogravitics.com.  This little "shuttle one" lifter flew right away on the first try, however it was the first
ship I built.  My first ship was a "Beamship Variation I", a kit I purchased which also supplied the power supply.  Unfortunately, since the larger beamship (a triangle about 1 meter long on each side) was my first construction, I made some construction errors which prevented my Beamship from taking off.  After some efforts, I decided to downsize the project based on the smaller original lifters on your website.  My "shuttle one" took off right away with great success.  I was
thrilled!!!  For other lifter builders, I would note that it definitely takes a little experimentation with the placement of the high voltage + wire above the lifter cells.  Also, the length and precise location of the tether lines is critical to creating a stable hover flight. 

Further, I had originall suspended the main + HV wire from a flimsy wooden stick in  a glass bottle next to the lifter.  I eventually figured out that as the lifter jerked back and forth on the + HV wire, the flimsy wooden supports were bouncing back and forth, like a tiny fishing pole....contributing to the instability of the lifter.  I am now going to use thicker wooden dowels to support my HV line.  Another problem that I had was that the two power leads from my power supply were originally running about 5 meters away from me (to avoid the low level gamma radiation from the lifter)... but the HV wires were not coated with any teflon or other insulation... so the two HV wires were strongly attracted to one another and over the distance of 5 meters (15 feet) from the power supply, the - HV line would leap towards the + HV line and short out the entire experiment.  I'm now considering using teflon coated HV lines and using sand paper to remove the portion of the insulation which is just needed in the exact location of the lifter.

This was my first experience with high voltage.  I had some concerns but read lots of safety tips on the internet and was pretty careful.  As  you can see in the photo, I'm wearing plastic safety glasses and thick latex gloves.  Over time,  was very glad to have these safety items as I did receive several HV shocks during my experiments, but luckily only one was of any substance (yow!).  I think if one is careful with HV, so long as the amperage is low enough, it is safe to experiment.  I am now interested in learning how to "ground out" my lifter between experiments using a 2 watt resistor (I've read about it but not tried it yet).  I want to develop better safety and grounding procedures working with my current power supply because I am anxious to move up to a much higher level HV supply.  I think I'll try for 100kV next and if that goes well, I'm interested in higher and higher HV (using only microamps of course).  I am hoping that the company "information unlimited" will develop an RF or infrared remote control lightweight lifter HV onboard battery operated (hearing aid cells) supply with remote controlled variable voltage adjustement.  Then we will be able to fly our lifters outside without the wires.  This is my current long range goal....along with increasing lift power for a larger ship.

Lastly, I tried to build a SIX TUBE tubular lifter: 2 inch diameter aluminum tubes 9 inches in length all mounted parallel to one another.  I was not able to lift this craft, perhaps I need more power, but I think there is another phenomenon going on ..... regardless of the height of the + HV wire above the tubular lifter cells, only the middle lifter tube would lift up toward the + HV wire.  Sometimes its neighbor tube would lift, but never any of the others, regardless of many adjustments in the + HV wire.  I suspect that there is some kind of need for symmetry in the design of lifter cells (as can be seen in most of the lifter designs on the net).

I have now created a web page (the reason for my delay in sending this information) which includes video of my successful lifter:

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/music/aholland/ScienceExperiments.html

Many many thanks for your wonderful lifter pages and all of your other research.  I am also deeply interested in your work on Tesla and scalar waves.  Keep up the great work!!!

Warmest regards

Dr. Anthony G. Holland
Associate Professor of Music
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Hi,
    I got my first lifter up and flying, I purchased an HV350 from www.amazing1.com and I used a power converter to convert 120v ac to 12v dc at 5amps to power the HV powersupply.

I followed the instuctions on making the Lifter1. The only thing that I had to do to the Lifter was to remove some of the Balsa wood from the top of the supports to reduce it's weight so it would acheve a stable flight.  Everyone is amazed at how it lifts up and hovers.
I used a cardboard box to hold up the HV+ wire.

I am looking forward to making more lifters and trying some different designs in the future.

Please put me in your Logbook.
Thanks,
Russ Kuhn
Tucson, Az. USA.

Hello Jean-Louis, 

My name is Harold Berndt and at the beginning of this year... Within days... I had started a research company "Rabbit Hole Research" and I contructed my 1st Lifter (got it off the ground but not very high - 2-3 cm). To date I have probably constructed anywhere from 30 to 40 Lifters of various sizes... configuration... shapes etc... I have been using an old "Motel" TV set which seems to have a little more punch than the computer monitor I started with but I am expecting the delivery of my new High Voltage power supply any day now. I have some very interesting findings and suggestions which I will follow up with and I just joined the Yahoo "Lifters" newsgroup.   I am also very close (a couple of miles) from John Hutchison (The Hutchison effect) who lives in New Westminster BC (I'm in Surrey, BC or the Greater Vancouver BC area in Canada). I did contact John who invited me to see his lab in New Westminster... which I'm looking forward to!  

Please find attached, a few static images of my Lifters etc... as well as 2 video clips. The video clips are of the same test levitation but one of them I added some cool audio effects as well as adding an "Old time" movie effect... do with these images as you see fit.   That's about it for now but I did want to register (one of) my successful levitations.  

Kind Regards,  

Harold Berndt RABBIT HOLE RESEARCH Ltd. Surrey, BC

Il vole enfin !! :)

merci encore,

j'espere que le jury du concours des ecoles d'ingenieur appreciera le sujet :)

Bonjour   Comme promis, je vous tiens au courant des nouvelles expériences effectuées avec les lifter. J'ai réussi à faire voler un lifter 2 malgré quelques défauts de réalisation. Je vous envoi donc mon meilleur film retraçant le phénomène. Je vous remercie de toute l'aide que vous m'avez apporté

Cordialement
Pierre-Louis Toussaint

Hi my name is Daniel Kranich.

I am 12 and live in Anchorage alaska. I have enclosed a picture of our lifter we got to fly. we where able to create a power supply from your schematic, but it has slowly been decreacing in aoutput power.

I did a sience project and got a 2nd place trophy! (see enclosed pic.)please put us in your log book!!

Thanks,
Daniel Kranich :-)

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