Criticism of David Adair's propulsion claims
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:33:32 -0800
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Note from Moderator: David Adair, who has been on Art Bell and the UFO
lecture circuit in the Southwest, claims to be a former government
scientist who worked at Area 51 as a child prodigy. See our page on
him at http://www.ufomind.com/people/a/adair/
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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 02:43:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Colburn
Commenting on: http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/aug/d25-001.shtml
David Adair is a huxster and a fake, in my opinion. He knows virtually
nothing about rocket propulsion and is as far from being a "rocket
scientist" as anyone I know. He uses buzz words from propulsion
technology, but employs them incorrectly -- such as the mistake of
quoting a propellant combination that uses no oxidizer! He has no
sense of what it takes to develop a rocket, as all his purported
inventions work as soon as the last bolt is screwed in place with no
testing. This is incomprehensible in propulsion technology.
Fusion systems (excepting microsecond durations in huge multi-ton
machines) are not usable for propulsion; opening the containment for
exhausting will collapse the containment. No fusion rockets are
possible, I am afraid to say. The shuttle engine does not burn from the
front to the back during its burn duration, it burns exclusively
radially. This is something that David probably misinterpeted after
watching "Extreme Machines" or discovery's Rocket series. In fact, he
incorporates two mistakes made on those series in his Dreamland
appearance.
He spouts an occasional fact and gets it right, but he is so
incredibly wrong when wrong; it is extremely obvious to technically
inclined persons that he is poorly steeped in rocket lore, that it
would be an incredible embarassment, in my opinion, to be a sponsor
supporting his presentations.
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Created: Aug 2, 1998
