Subject: PLEASE Consider this Simple, yet Profound Gyroscope Microgravity Concept

From: "Dan Pestana" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:09:07 -0800

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Welcome to Dan Pestana's
"Gyrospoke Hovercraft"
Disclosure Webpage
This email has been created to showcase my 
invention called the "Gyrospoke."

      The device consists of 2 sets of 4 levers, strategically and symmetrically connected at 8 hinged fulcrums which are fixed pivot points. These fulcrums support the load surface and are connected to 2 hub planes supporting the 2 sets of spoke levers. Each of the 8 spoke levers is equipped with its own motorized gyroscope on the outer end of the rimless spoke. 
      Each spoke is supported midway by a hinged fulcrum leg extending from the payload surface above (or below) the levers. The center of the device is comprised of 2 hub planes driven together and apart by a symmetrical one piston high torque engine. The 2 hubs are connected to the load surface by only these fulcrum hinges. Four hub ends of the spoke levers are connected to the upper hub plane. The other set of 4 hub ends of the spoke levers are connected to the lower hub plane. (The hub planes are pushed and pulled apart and together by the electronically cycled stroke one piston engine mentioned above.)

      As the gyroscope motors on the outer end of the spokes spin their corresponding gyroscopes, an effort or resistance to change is introduced at the hinged fulcrums. This effort or force is transmitted to the load surface by the supporting hinged legs. An inertial force is created by the hub engine's independently self-contained opposition to the centrifugal or inertial effort of the 2 sets of four gyroscopes also working against each other. The inertial force created is harnessed and transmitted to the load. The central opposition is then leveraged by the corresponding and relative resistance to the gyroscope's inertial force at the fulcrum. The independent hub stroke effort also leverages the 2 sets of opposing centrifugal forces at the shared fulcrum hinges. A neutral microgravity is expected which will allow the Gyrospoke to maintain a levitation or buoyancy on any vertical plane it is located at or placed in. This efficient interpretation of inertial force will also be useful for a number of other devices needing independent gravity (i.e.: braking mechanisms, propulsion and powers supplies).

      I have been working on this concept for 15 years and have many notes and several prototypes to support my ownership of its inception. I have never able to get past what I thought would be the simplest part of the device, that is the construction of the interacting levers between the two hub planes. My homemade gyroscopes seemed to work okay, but without the two hub planes pushing and pulling symmetrically against each other the prototypes are rendered useless.

      I hope to experiment with the direction and speed of the gyroscopes' spin once my final prototype is finished. I presume that for the sake of stability, it will be wise to the have gyroscopes adjacent to each other have symmetrically opposite spins to neutralize their inclination to tilt when a load is applied.

      I welcome any person's constructive input.

      I hereby authorize the construction of this device by any person wishing to test my theory. Should you build a working device and wish to profit financially from its construction, I would be happy to entertain a nominal bid for sale of usage to you or your company.

      Dan Pestana
      8002 N. Packwood Ave.
      Tampa, FL 33604-3815
      (813) 931-8036
      [email-masked]