Tesla's Flying Machine

[v71]

I find the story incongruent too, first of all he wasn't an engeneer , he was an enthomologist, did he kill thounds of beetles only to build his plantform, wouldn't the wings got rotten after few months ?
Being the fact that he wasn't an engeneer i find it difficult to think he added high voltage or
a frequency generator hidden somewhere, or we are facing a new kind of effect which doesn't use
energy at all, or maybe we are in front of another hoax.

[TechStuf]

That's the funny thing about subtle forces....sometimes a 'grain' of Truth is really a Mountain of reality which only appears small through the tiny lens of man's understanding.

Even the subtle beat of a butterfly's wings....


TS

[web]

Hi, I came across your forum topic after recently coming across the same site http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/tesla-flying-machine/Tesla-Flying-Stove-motor.php.  Impressed with the effort gone to, I wondered if anyone who has also tried to recreate it has tried rotating the whole device about the x axis in the diagram ?

To my mind, if you follow the logic of the spinning action - the spinning masses on each of the edges of the square each create their own centrifugal force rotating around each edge (creating a wobble). With the orientation of these spinning masses relative to each other, the sum total of these forces (wobbles) as the motors rotate cancel out vertically (along the x axis) but create a rotating force revolving around the x axis pointing radially outward in the same plane as the square (yz).  If you were then to rotate the whole device in the opposite direction to the spinning force about the x axis the resultant centrifugal force would appear to point in just one direction relative to earth.  You could then simply direct that force to point in any direction to move in that direction.  I must be missing something major as it seems too simple - perhaps someone cleverer on this forum can explain why that wouldn't work.

[v71]

You are missing the angular momentum conservation, i tried that configuration, the spinning mases slow down, as the main rotor increases the rotational speed, up to the point they completely stop
try and see for yourself .

[web]

Hi, I appreciate your reply and that you've gone to the effort of trying that already - you're most likely correct about angular momentum conservation as a reason for it not working. 
However, I can't see how your spinning weights would stop.  I can see how they would appear to stop relative to earth if you lit it with a strobe.  If instead of 2 motors to supply the power you had 2 big cogs and those 2 cogs are then linked to the same fixed cog or circular track (so the whole thing rotates on the fixed cog/track such that 1 rev on the fixed track = 1 rev on each of the drive cogs).  You then attach a drive shaft to the frame of the device (along x axis) and rotate that single shaft then the whole device would rotate on the fixed cog which in turn would force the individual weights to rotate via the drive cogs.  Was that the kind of setup you had ?