https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effecthttp://users.erols.com/iri/TTBROWN2.htmIn 1985, Dr. Paul LaViolette was in the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and looked up the work "gravity" in the card catalog. Surprisingly, he found the listing for "Electrogravitics Systems," a report that was missing from the stacks. When the librarian tried to locate any other copies through interlibrary loan, she commented, "It must be an exotic document" because she could find only one in the country which was at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Thus, LaViolette was successful in obtaining a copy of the formerly classified document. The mystery continued: seven years later when contacting the Wright-Patterson AFB Technical Library, they surprisingly found no reference in the computer-based card catalog. They did locate the document on the shelves, however, after being asked to search for it. To summarize, the report has historic value because:
It validates T.T. Brown's experiments;
It lists the major corporations that were collaborating on electrogravitics;
It includes the requirements for supersonic speed;
It shows the continuity from Project Winterhaven in 1952;
The report includes a list of electrostatic patents;
It had been classified by the Air Force for an undetermined amount of time which underscores its importance.
M. Tajmar writes:
"Hence, these studies lack from detailed information about the behavior of this effect with respect to voltage, current or ambient pressure."
You might write to him, so that his knowledge on the subject might be properly updated.
Biefeld-Brown effect verified completely at the Honda R&D Institute:
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg2031282#msg2031282M. Tajmar again:
"However, Brown claimed that the effect remained in vacuum and therefore is not due to ionization of the ambient air. This was left unconfirmed."
Write to him again and inform him of the tests carried out by the French Government, Project Montgolfier:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140110041712/http://projetmontgolfier.info/https://web.archive.org/web/20131025082102/http://projetmontgolfier.info/TT_Brown_Proposal.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20130522083124/http://projetmontgolfier.info/uploads/Section_3__Final_Report.pdfIn 1955 and 1956 Townsend Brown made two trips to Paris where he conducted tests of his electrokinetic apparatus and electrogravitic vacuum chamber tests in collaboration with the French aeronautical company Société National de Construction Aeronautiques du Sud Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) .
In addition the Project Montgolfier team constructed a very large vacuum chamber for performing vacuum tests of smaller discs at a pressure of 5 X 10-5 mm Hg:
Left: Vacuum chamber vessel (1.4 m diameter) for conducting electrogravitic tests. Right: Vessel opened to show test rotor rig within. (photos courtesy of J. Cornillon)
Reading the section describing the vacuum chamber results, we learn that when the discs are operated at atmospheric pressure they move in the direction of the leading edge wire regardless of outboard wire polarity. This indicates that in normal atmospheric conditions the discs are propelled forward primarily by unbalanced electrostatic forces due to the prevailing nonlinear field configuration (which causes thrust in the direction of the low field intensity ion cloud regardless of the ion polarity). On the other hand, the report says that under high vacuum conditions the discs always moved in the direction of the positive pole, regardless of the polarity on the outboard wire.
These vacuum chamber experiments were a decisive milestone in that they demonstrated beyond a doubt that electrogravitic propulsion was a real physical phenomenon.
PAGE 26 OF THE FINAL REPORT FULLY DESCRIBES THE OBSERVED BIEFELD BROWN EFFECT IN FULL VACUUM CHAMBER
When the DISK SHAPED CAPACITOR WAS USED, the total deviation/movement was A FULL 30 DEGREES (deviation totale du systeme 30 degre).
No ion drift/wind
Experimental proof that the vacuum consists of ether.
(vacuum test performed by Gravitec, increasing the voltage from 15kv to 18 kv, clear movement/thrust of the capacitor can be seen; near the end the power is switched off, and then turned on again, and we can the visible thrust of the capacitor for a second time)
The first video supplied by Gravitec in 2003:
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1852363#msg1852363 (vacuum test #1, Biefeld-Brown effect part I, contains the experiments performed by T. Brown in oil)
One of the best videos which exemplifies the Biefeld-Brown effect in vacuum:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050216062907/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~reginald/liftvac.htmlhttp://lifters.online.fr/lifters/ascvacuum/index.htm (includes all necessary technical information and the video itself)
At the pressure of 1.72 x 10^-6 Torr ( High Vacuum conditions ), the apparatus rotates when the High Voltage is increased from 0 to +45 KV.
Dr. Takaaki Musha
Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee (ASPIC)
Research Engineer on Naval Systems, Technical Research & Development Institute
Honda R&D Institute, Biefeld-Brown effect experiments
http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/musha/Musha.pdfExplanation of dynamical Biefeld-Brown Effect from the standpoint of ZPF field
In 1956, T.T. Brown presented a discovery known as the Biefeld-Bown effect (abbreviated B-B effect) that a sufficiently charged capacitor with dielectrics exhibited unidirectional thrust in the direction of the positive plate.
From the 1st of February until the 1st of March in 1996, the research group of the HONDA R&D Institute conducted experiments to verify the B-B effect with an improved experimental device which rejected the influence of corona discharges and electric wind around the capacitor by setting the capacitor in the insulator oil contained within a metallic vessel . . . The experimental results measured by the Honda research group are shown . . .
. . . The theoretical analysis result suggests that the impulsive electric field applied to the dielectric material may produce a sufficient artificial gravity to attain velocities comparable to chemical rockets.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120710005059/http://www.ovaltech.ca/pdfss/Theoretical_Explanation_of_the_Biefield-Brown_Effect.pdfExperiments carried out at the HONDA R&D Institute confirm that the Biefeld-Brown effect is real.
Direct experimental proof that the ether propagates through vacuum, causing the antigravitational Biefeld-Brown effect.
No gas left in the experiments: they were performed in vacuum.
Also the experiments carried out at the Honda R&D eliminated the possibility of ionic winds.
Here is the article referenced by you (ion drift):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262985133_Calculation_and_measurement_of_a_neutral_air_flow_velocity_impacting_a_high_voltage_capacitor_with_asymmetrical_electrodes?origin=publication_listBIEFELD-BROWN EXPERIMENTS WITHOUT AIR FLOW
VIDEO: BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT, balancing a condenser on a beam balance
http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/elghatv1.htm (includes three videos of the experiment)
In 1955, he went to work for the French aerospace company SNCASO—Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du SudOuest. During this one-year research period, he ran his discs in a vacuum. If anything, they worked better in a vacuum.
http://www.rexresearch.com/gravitor/gravitor.htmSince the time of the first test the apparatus and the methods used have been greatly improved and simplified. Cellular "gravitators" have taken the place of the large balls of lead. Rotating frames supporting two and four gravitators have made possible acceleration measurements. Molecular gravitators made of solid blocks of massive dielectric have given still greater efficiency. Rotors and pendulums operating under oil have eliminated atmospheric considerations as to pressure, temperature and humidity.
The disturbing effects of ionization, electron emission and pure electro-statics have likewise been carefully analyzed and eliminated. Finally after many years of tedious work and with refinement of methods we succeeded in observing the gravitational variations produced by the moon and sun and much smaller variations produced by the different planets.
Let us take, for example, the case of a gravitator totally immersed in oil but suspended so as to act as a pendulum and swing along the line of its elements.
When the direct current with high voltage (75-300 kilovolts) is applied the gravitator swings up the arc until its propulsive force balances the force of the earth's gravity resolved to that point, then it stops, but it does not remain there. The pendulum then gradually returns to the vertical or starting position even while the potential is maintained. The pendulum swings only to one side of the vertical. Less than five seconds is required for the test pendulum to reach the maximum amplitude of the swing but from thirty to eighty seconds are required for it to return to zero.
(T.T. Brown, How I Control Gravitation, 1929)