While poking around James Lileks’ incredibly fun site, I happened on this excerpt from Focus, a cheesecake/ men’s magazine from 1957. Sounds like someone heard a rumor about Wilbert Smith, even though that part of the story didn’t surface until the 1980s, I think.

Of course, if you believe this paper (referenced in my book Project Beta) “electro-gravitics” has been around since at least the mid-1950s, or even the 1930s if you count the work of T. Townshend Brown.

Convair (mentioned in the rumor clip) actually went ahead with the atomic plane concept. All of this begins to look like antique disinformation, doesn’t it?

Thanks to reader Crgintx for the atom plane link.

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One Comment to “Anti Gravity Rumor from 1957”

1. red pill junkie Says:
   November 30th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

   That atom plane looked like a really, really, REALLY bad idea. Imagine the awful consequences of one of those crashing on an populated area.

   Well, now that ithink about it, since I remember all the trouble that caused the crash of an F-117 during an Air show once: with so many classified materials (hazardous materials too) that are used in the construction of those aircrafts, the potential dangers of an atomic bomber doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that would disturb the mind of those guys at the Pentagon (at least during the 1950s).

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