Lifter-3 Microcell Design

The concept behind the microcell design is to embed a series of small cells inside of a conventional lifter in order to increase the overall power-dissipation of the device, which should in turn increase thrust. This design requires a higher-level of power than other designs in order to function at peak efficiency.

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Lifter Prototoypes

Lifter 4 -Indoor testing of the L4 in January '03. Click Here

L4 Outdoor -Outdoor testing of the L4 from '02-'03. Click Here

Lifter 3 -Summer '02 outdoor testing of the 3-foot Lifter design. Click Here

Smoke Test -Airflow testing using smoke-trails to examine the ion-wind effects. Click Here

Bernoulli -Airflow testing to attempt atmospheric-drive enhancement. Click Here

Flying -Example photos from early Lifter-1 test flights. Click Here

L9 Construction -Notes and photos from building the 9-foot Lifter in '03. Click Here

Nacelle -Overview of the prototype thrust-nacelle elongated multi-stage Lifter. Click Here

Nacelle -Overview of the prototype thrust-nacelle elongated multi-stage Lifter. Click Here

Lifter Craft -Lifter-1 chassis with internally mounted bernoulli enhancer. Click Here

Microcell -Lifter Microcell dense-grid experiment. Click Here

Beamship -Experimental beamship single-cell Lifter prototype. Click Here

Russell -Beamship experimentation and kits for sale by Russell Anderson. Click Here

Microcell Prototype

A front view of the 3-foot Lifter. This closeup reveals the packing used to increase the emitter-collector element length for this 3-foot Lifter.

Microcell Element Inserts A pre-assembly photo shows the microcell inserts and the Lifter-3 chassis ready for interior mounting.
Dense Grid Layout This view shows the 9-inch long Lifter-3 struts and the 4.5 inch microcells, forming a dense triangle grid.
High-Power Lifter-3 The L3-Microcell requires more power than a normal Lifter for efficient operation, as shown in this test.
Cell-Height Comparison The microcells measure only 2-cm in height, in comparison to the 3-cm collector, to reduce weight.

Microcell Overview

Normally a compound lifter is composed of a number of triangular cells glued together at the edges to form a larger composite triangle. While this method works well for Lifters containing large amounts of space on the interior of the cells, each of these individual cells contains space that doesn't participate in propulsion due to being too far away from the edge of the cell where thrust occurs.

Thrust occurs at the edge of each cell, and travels in a vertical axis up from the foil collector to the wire emitter. Typically, longer wire-foil combinations are preferred to reduce electrical leakage at the 3-corners of each triangular cell. This leakage is due mostly to construction methods and irregularities in the process of manually building lifters.

The Lifter-3 Microcell concept is designed to take advantage of unused space in the center of each lifting-cell by adding a smaller foil-triangle to the cell to allow the device to dissipate more power than the lifter would otherwise be able to.

Greater power-dissipation means more thrust coming from a much smaller overall device design, although one major drawback to increasing the power-dissipation for the Lifter-3 is that much greater amounts of energy are required than normal in order to satisfy the larger power-requirements.

It should be possible through the use of Microcell technology to allow the 3-foot Lifter to dissipate as much power as a 5 or 6-foot design would, which in turn provides thrust similar to the larger model Lifter at only a fraction of the physical scale.