BBC news article:Boeing to research Podkletnov's Anti Gravity Theory
Researchers at the world's largest aircraft maker, Boeing, are using the work of a controversial Russian scientist to try to create a device that will defy gravity.
The company is examining an experiment by Yevgeny Podkletnov, who claims to have developed a device which can shield objects from the Earth's pull.
Dr Podkletnov is viewed with suspicion by many conventional scientists. They have not been able to reproduce his results.
(NASA has already tried and failed to reproduce the results)
For more context, read the original 1998 breaking of the Podkletnov story in "Wired" magazine:
Breaking the Law of Gravity
update
The Boeing research story is also reported by janes.com (website for Janes Information Group - famous U.K. compiler of defense related information) - article here: Anti-gravity propulsion comes out of the closet
The Janes article mentions a news item I'd never heard before:
... Podkletnov’s claims that his high-power experiments, using a device called an “impulse gravity generator”, are capable of producing a beam of “gravity-like” energy that can exert an instantaneous force of 1,000g on any object - enough, in principle, to vaporise it, especially if the object is moving at high speed.
Podkletnov maintains that a laboratory installation in Russia has already demonstrated the 4in (10cm) wide beam’s ability to repel objects a kilometre away and that it exhibits negligible power loss at distances of up to 200km. Such a device, observers say, could be adapted for use as an anti-satellite weapon or a ballistic missile shield.
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