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APPENDIX C: Big Black Delta: A 21st century human version of the Vailixi airships of old?

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APPENDIX C: Big Black Delta: A 21st century human version of the Vailixi airships of old?

The US military may have been experimenting with various sized lightweight airships of lifting body design and electrokinetic propulsion since the early 1980s or so. Some of the craft may be enormous. 'Big Black Delta' is one term given a common triangular configuration of such ships. The craft may hover over one spot, move very slowly ('loiter'), or travel rapidly away. Its construction and composition can give it little or no reliable radar cross-section. In some models the surprising maximum speed available may stem partly from a 'tractor' effect on air itself, utilized not only outside but inside the craft (with some outside air being diverted inside for acceleration purposes), sharing some conceptual elements with fluid tractor systems used for some experimental submarine propulsion methods. 'Sweetening' the passing air via certain catalysts-- as well as temporarily causing a much greater slipperiness on exposed surfaces by a different method-- can result in optimal speed bursts, much like nitrogen oxide injection can spike horsepower output in automobile engines.

The craft may travel at virtually any altitude (including space vacuum), and often travel with almost no engine noise whatsoever. They may also stay aloft for nearly indefinite periods. Small nuclear reactors may power some models: others, hybrid fuel cells. Some models may use a combination of these, or other technologies entirely.

Though little known outside the personnel involved in these black projects themselves, suitably modified versions of the airships might easily take on space or undersea missions with few pressure-related problems, so long as the craft are automated or remotely-piloted, or suitable life support mechanisms are provided for any crew members onboard (these measures are typically limited to something like space or pressure suits for individual crewmembers, or one or more very small protected living space(s) onboard). Submarine excursions are actually tougher than space missions for such craft, in some ways. Submarine missions are usually best performed by the smaller models, as the inherent fragility of the design is much more evident underwater, while virtually any size ship may achieve space altitude and beyond-- though various external aids may be required to actually free such craft completely from Earth's gravity well.

-- Multiple sources, but including:

-- Investigation Casts Light on the Mysterious Flying Black Triangle By Leonard David; 05 August 2002; space.com

-- Flying Triangles; phenomenamagazine.com

-- Top Secret Black Triangles; klas-tv.com

-- NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma; nidsci.org

-- Close encounters with silent ultrasonic Flying Triangles in the Indian side of Himalayas; indiadaily.com

-- Plane's wreckage puzzles investigators Clues hint at mid-air collision with 'unknown object' By Mike Ahlers; May 22, 2004; edition.cnn.com and Cause of Alabama Plane Crash Still a Mystery; wsfa.com; accessible online December 18, 2004

-- Mexican Air Force Releases Photos Of Alleged UFOs; ktvu.com

"The aircraft are equipped with special infrared light panels that are only visible to special cameras or night vision gear."

"The new stealth aircraft is said to embody the latest technology, including special light panels designed to hide the plane in broad daylight. "

-- UFOs Gone Wild, Men From Mars Visit Mexico by Charles R. Smith; May 13, 2004; newsmax.com

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