"Keeping AeroNefs in the sky" Topic

This came up recently and I answered with a blog post, and I wanted to share it with everyone to also get their input. Aether theory is interesting.

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Jon
lebanon1982.blogspot.com

Remember the old H.G.Wells' Cavorite.

From the Aeronef booklet:

1884 American Inventor Frank Stockburn invents a machine that generates a power opposite to that of gravity.His machine,called the Negative Gravity Screw,is used to make the first Aeronef.

And that's the beginning of Aeronefs at least in the Aeronef timeline.

We prefer "Upsidaisium" for our anti-grav material but I shall look for plans for Mr. Stockburn's machine.

Here's something else from the Aeronef booklet from Wessex Games:

1886 English scientist Professor Hartly Rennick separates
the forces of nature into positive and negative elements.
He reasons that the most likely source of material containing
Repulsive(or anti-gravitatiational)Gravitons are the outer layer
of meteorites that have fallen to earth.R-Gravitons are found
to be capable of lifting considerably larger weights than
Negative Gravity Screws.

I was going to say about the R-Matter…

So, we have negative gravity screws and R-matter in the same universe, liftwood from Space1889, which could fit in as long as you ignore Chadwick's recent invocation of boson physics.

I think Edison used something similar to NGS to get to Mars in the first place.

Not sure where 'Imperial Skies 1889 Kurt Loewe perfects the Graviton engine' fits into the scheme.

Cavorite in the movie, don't remember the book, blocked gravity directionally, somewhat like liftwood. Using selective gravitational sources, say, block Earth, open the Moon, fly to the Moon.

Rather like the silliness of using liftwood to rise and glide down, ignored the differences of force scales, though, in the movie's case, the whole 'inverse square root' thingie.

Doug

Hive, Queen, and Country uses aerolyth, which is a specific stone that generates a lifting force when charged with electricity.

It also uses traditional aerodynamic lift.

Could say the same for Space 1889: Germans had Albatross style rotors for some of their ships. ;->=

In spite of having a fair number of HQ&C tomes, more soon from the KS, I STILL think aerolyth is burned for lift, though I think it can be burnt for straight power.

Doug

Sorry, meant to say 'STILL [mistakenly] think…'

Doug