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The History of Antigravity Research
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Amarillo Daily News November 26, 1955
Institute for Advanced Study Purdue Research Foundation Centers where pure research on gravity now is in progress in some form include the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton N.J., and also at Princeton University: The University of Indiana’s School of Advanced Mathematical Studies and the Purdue University Research Foundation. Amarillo Daily News November 26, 1955
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Amarillo Daily News November 26, 1955
“The initial steps of an almost incredible program to solve the secret of gravity and universal gravitation are being taken today in many of America’s top scientific laboratories and research centers.” “A number of major long established companies in the United States aircraft and electronics industries are also involved in gravity research. Scientists in general bracket gravity with life itself as the greatest unsolved mystery in the universe.” Amarillo Daily News November 26, 1955
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New York Times February 7, 1957
Jesse Vernon Honeycutt, a director and vice president of the Bethlehem Steel Company declared: “Should the mystery be solved, it would bring about a greater revolution in power, transportation and many other fields than the discovery of atomic power.” “For example, solving the mystery of gravitational force would be of tremendous import in the field of aircraft design, where the problem of fighting gravity’s effects has always been basic.” New York Times February 7, 1957
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Amarillo Daily News November 30, 1955
The current interest in America’s aircraft and electronic industries in finding out weather gravity can be controlled or “cancelled out” is not confined to imaginative young graduates of engineering and scientific schools. “Aviation as we know it is on the threshold of amazing new concepts. The United States aircraft industry already is working with nuclear fuels and equipment to cancel out gravity instead of fighting it.” – Lawrence D. Bell Amarillo Daily News November 30, 1955
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Amarillo Daily News November 29, 1955
“Many in America’s aircraft and electronic industries are excited over the possibility of using its magnetic and gravitational fields as a medium of support for amazing “flying vehicles” which will not depend on the air for lift.” “Space ships capable of accelerating in a few seconds to speeds many thousands of miles an hour and making sudden changes of course at these speeds without subjecting their passengers to the so-called “G-forces” caused by gravity’s pull are also envisioned.” Amarillo Daily News November 29, 1955
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Amarillo Daily News November 9, 1957
“We are entering the age of anti-gravity space travel. Spherical craft, made weightless and propelled by anti-gravity engines, may soon attain almost the speed of light – 600 million miles per hour.” “This is not a dream. Since 1953, the Canadian government has been working on “Project Magnet”. At least 14 U.S. universities and other research centers are trying to crack the gravity barrier. Teams of researchers and engineers from four major American aircraft companies have anti-gravity designs and data on their drawing boards, proving that whatever goes up does not have to come down.” Amarillo Daily News November 9, 1957
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“One almost fantastic possibility is that if gravity can be understood scientifically and negated or neutralized in some relatively inexpensive manner, it will be possible to build aircraft, earth satellites and even space ships that will move swiftly into outer space, without strain, beyond the pull of earth’s gravity field. They would not have to wrench themselves away through the brute force of powerful rockets and through expenditure of expensive chemical fuels.” Council Bluffs 11/27/55
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