The Galaxycraft

THEORY: To build a flying winged platform that utilizes the Annular Kinetic engine (AKE) as a source of flight power. These large light-weight engines are built to be located in the outer perimeter of a circular wing. The craft is built with two counter rotating wings, one inside the other, with equal lift.

DATE of ORIGIN: May, 1984.

DESCRIPTION: This flying atmospheric platform (FAP) is designed to have all the power and flight control to master both atmospheric and space flight. With the engines in the outer and inner perimeters of the circular wings, the engines are the largest parts of the craft. There are two counter rotating wings with equal lift capacity. The wings and engines are supported at their outer and inner perimeter by magnetic levitation.

   

1. A masterful design

This is a masterful design as it allows for maximum lift at the outer edge of the wing where it is wider, rather than close to the fuselage of today’s aircraft. With the lift further away from the fuselage and combined with the spinning action of the wings creating a gyroscopic effect, these aircraft will become very stable platforms from which to work or travel.

 

2. Three dimensional flight

Here now for the first time we have true three-dimensional fight. This craft is designed to be able to “process” air. To have the ability to fly straight up, straight down or just stop in the air. From a standing position in the atmosphere the craft could take any angle of attack that it wants. Here the definition of three dimensional flight is in the flying coordinates. Instead of flying in 2 dimensions, by angle of compass (N,S,E,W) and angle of attack. Now we can fly by three coordinates, angle of attack, compass direction and vertical inclination.

3. The wings rotate within a magnetic field

These drawings envisioned linear induction magnets in the fuselage to produce magnetic lift for the wing/engine sections. The magnets center the wing sections in a V shaped magnetic field that strengthens with the speed of the wing. The drawings below are experimenting with wing and magnetic design.

Both the engine and the power are in the correct place, the wings. The wing sections do not come in contact with the fuselage because they are suspended in a magnetic field.

4. Vector nozzles under the wings

Below is an attempt to draw a vector nozzle under the craft. It would concentrate the out flow of air into a jet stream under the craft for the wings to push against. Or spread out the vector nozzle for more stability. The next drawing suggests jet propulsion in the vector tube and just below the wings.

  

5. The wings float in the fuselage

The key here is to have as little moving parts as possible, for both atmospheric and space travel. That is the reason for the magnetic lift design in the wings. Initially, from a standing position the engine/wing segment of the craft would need rollers to start turning but then once the magnets started to pass one another they would start to develop the same magnetic field in the opposing magnets. Which would cause the magnets to repel each other.

When the  cylinders in the annular kinetic engines start to fire, the wings will start to spin. The magnets on the spinning wing generates a magnetic field in the magnets of the fuselage as they pass by. By the laws of physics this polarity will be the same as that of the magnets in the wing and they will repel each other.

That holds the wing magnetically braced inside a V-shaped magnetic field. Lifting the rollers off their raceway.  The magnets do not need to be powered. Just the action of passing each other will create strong, stable lift that will never crash into each other. Now the wing is spinning freely inside the fuselage.

6. Flight controls

Fight controls are required to shift to Galaxycraft out of its gyroscopic angle of attack. Otherwise it would travel indefinitely straight up. To achieve flight control there has to be a disturbance in the “gyroscopic plain”. The gyroscopic plane is perpendicular to the angle of attack. Or perpendicular to the center of axis.

The craft will stay in this angle of attack until there is a change in the gyroscopic forces imposed. The drawings above and below show how that is accomplished. At the outer end of the airfoil there is an extending shaft that is fitted with a lever arm with controls at its end. As the controller rises and lowers  the lever arm, this in turn tips the airfoils open or closed.

To change the angle of attack, only a portion of the airfoils in the wing opens, or closes a few degrees more than the others. This imbalance will cause the airfoils in only a small portion of the wing to increase or decrease lift.  This extra lift in one quadrant of the craft will change the gyroscopics and shift the craft into a different angle of attack. Electrical actuators would control the airfoil levers. Again the concept is to have as few moving and spinning parts as possible.

7. Flying the Galaxycraft

To fly the craft would start-up the annular kinetic engines with the airfoils in the closed position. Again the engines and the wings are now one and the same, so once the engines and wings are up to speed the airfoils would start to open to the desired amount. This would not happen until there was sufficient kinetic energy in the mass of the wings (engines, fuel tanks with fuel and airfoils combined). This kinetic energy will prevent the wings from “stalling” when the airfoils first open.

The wings would grab the air and snap open, launching the craft into the air. With enough power to continue to speed up the engines and open the wings more the craft will launch itself straight up as fast as a roman candle.

The wings will be most effective at lower altitudes. Giving the galaxycraft an opportunity to push against this thicker air, to build up speed as the air thins out at higher altitudes. As the effective ability of the airfoils starts to diminish at higher altitudes the kinetic energy of the wing sections starts to take over. As the air thins out and the craft enters space, the wings close and the kinetic engines continue to turn.

8. Travelling in space

With the wings closed and the engines picking up speed, do in part to less friction and less load, together they become a spinning mass. This mass of counter rotating wings has kinetic energy and it will continue to keep the craft propelled forward, traveling at ever faster speeds into space.

In space and without gravity or friction the rotating wings sections will be permanently fix in a magnetic field, the faster they spin, the stronger the field. This kinetic energy locked up in the spinning weight of the solid and liquid mass of two rotating wings will only need direction to travel in space. This will keep the craft traveling at ever faster speeds into space until the flight dynamics change.

     

Please see; Carbon Free Fuel, The Annular Kinetic Engine and The Cosmos.

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