Reply To: Iconography

[vansig]

do not confuse the Cannae null test article with a control. it was a test article that Cannae had not expected to produce thrust, yet it did.
for that, Eagleworks has merely shown that Cannae’s theory was false.

i’m talking about how Eagleworks removes the 9.6 uN, that is part of the test apparatus, from each the tests to find ~95 uN or so net force.

“The (net) peak thrust observed for this tested configuration was 116 micronewtons and the (net) mean thrust over the five runs was 91.2 micronewtons. The net force is calculated by accounting for the null force present in the system. Null testing is performed by attaching the RF drive system to a 50 ohm load and running the system at full power. The null force testing indicated that there was an average null force of 9.6 micronewtons present in the as tested configuration. The presence of this null force was a result of the DC power current of 5.6 amps running in the power cable to the RF amplifier from the liquid metal contacts. This current causes the power cable to generate a magnetic field that interacts with the torsion pendulum magnetic damper system. The null test data is also shown in Fig. 20.”