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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