Re: [TCML] Airforce Test Facility Story

[Carl Noggle <cn@xxxxx>]

There was a dude named Robert Golka who came through Tucson in the 70s 
trying to promote funds to build a replica of Tesla's Colorado Springs 
coil, ostensibly to study ball lightning for the purpose of hydrogen 
fusion confinement.  (?)  He talked to us in the U of A lightning 
research group.  He said that Tesla noted features of his big discharges 
that were like ball lightning.  I read Tesla's descriptions and it 
didn't sound to me that he was describing anything like BL.  Being 
dirt-poor researchers, we were merely able to give him our good wishes 
and he went on his way.  We heard later that he eventually was able to 
persuade the Air Force to back him and did build his replica at Wendover.

A Google search came up with this video--

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-q1ndHIajs

which shows his coil in operation.  It's pretty cool, but it's not clear 
from the video that they are doing anything but throwing cool sparks 
around.  This, of course, is a good thing in itself.  If a big top load 
were added it would possibly have enough capacitance to generate a 
pretty high current discharge, but the way it's being used in the video 
it doesn't betray a huge knowledge of pulse power, to me at least.

Does anyone know about the present state of this coil?

---Carl


Re: [TCML] Airforce Test Facility Story






> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-q1ndHIajs
>
>
> Jim Lux wrote:
>
> > On 2/29/12 4:20 PM, Ed Phillips wrote:
> >
> > > No one does because it never happened - just typical urban myth. The
> > > actual site was Wendover AFB and there's a lot about it on the web if
> > > you can find it.
> > >
> > > Roger wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know the details of the story of a US air force test
> > > > facility
> > > > that used a giant tesla system to synthesize lightening strikes on
> > > > military
> > > > aircraft to test avionics that had a malfunction during a test and a
> > > > capacitor bank the size of a UPS truck disappeared?
> > > >
> > > > Roger
> >
> > There's also a HUGE EMP testing facility at Kirtland AFB near
> > Albuquerque with an enormous wooden trestle and wires to transfer the
> > field.  Look up "TRESTLE" and "EMP" and you'll find it.
> >
> > http://www.ece.unm.edu/summa/notes/trestle.html
> >
> >
> > Here's a picture of a plane being tested for EMP
> > http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=49808
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