The Quonset Hut

Good day to all.
I've been closely watching the drone market and it appears that some of that tech, manly the rechargeable batteries,
May have some use in the portable high voltage area.
But first:

What does this appear to be?
I have deciiphered this as a device that has a central turbine/fan motor.
It is the metal components that are confusing.
I believe this device somehow recycles ions or air for vertical lift.
This device below uses a ducted fan.
Notice any similarities?

www.diydrones.com
Has some very useful ideas for possible integration for a remote controlled craft.
Mark

Missing something. How did you determine there was a ducted fan in the first two photos?

As to the last photo, I have seen that before but can't place it.

Mikado

Hey Mikado,
The last photo is a picture of Stan Deyo's design.
He has stated that it uses a ducted fan.
The first photo is from the Bahnson lab.
I had the Bahnson photo enlarged and deduced by the similarities of the central cone sticking out of both of them that a fan type device was also used in Bahnson's.
I know that ducted fans were not invented back then during Bahnson's time frame.
But I do believe they used some type of turbine.
I also believe that whe Deyo visited that lab after it closed,
he saw this device and copied it.
I also believe, due to the bottom plexiglass plate in the Bahnson plate having an upward curved edge like Deyo's,
that this somehow aids in assisting lift somehow.
I would be guessing if I said that the top metal and,the bottom metal plate, both toroidal in appearance,
are charged.
Mark

Can a ducted fan be used to pull instead of push?
Mark

Is the ducted fan pulling itself (corkscrewing) through the air or is the air expelled pushing it?

Which one could it be? The chicken or the egg?


...or both?

Mikado

The answers My friends ain't blowin in the wind.
The wind ain't blowin.

So what displaces the atmosphere?

Just because it looks like a fan, doesn't mean it is a fan.

As above, so below.

The wind is either attracted by a spiral inrush or outrush.

Kevin

I hate to drone on , but those bees know all about geometry.
http://www.rexresearch.com/grebenn/grebenn.htm

I wonder why Grebennikov said the wind and rain didn't touch Him?
Kevin