Thanks for the article sipsake, this passage kinda sums up the site (
www.americanantigravity.com)
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Until the late '90s, when Brown's work was revived by Jeff Cameron, a NASA subcontractor in Huntsville, Alabama. He'd noticed similar twitching movement in capacitors and, recalling a mention of the Biefeld-Brown effect in a college physics class, hunted down some of Brown's patents. Cameron wanted something that would fly, to dramatically illustrate the force. He chose balsa wood for lightness and a three-sided shape for sturdiness. When he fired high voltage through it, it jumped into the air, and the lifter was born. In June 2001, Cameron posted pictures of his setup online.
Which is how Tim Ventura heard about it - and turned lifters into a global phenomenon.
"I think that being slightly nuts is part of this whole subculture," Ventura says.
He sits at his workbench amid a pile of electronic parts, squinting at a burnt fuse. We're in his garage near Seattle, the world headquarters of the lifter movement. Ventura - a squat 27-year-old computer engineer who favors cowboy boots - runs AmericanAntigravity.com, a Web site devoted to collecting flight videos and theorizing about lifters. While unemployed last summer, he built "probably more lifters than anyone on the planet" and wrote a step-by-step guide to constructing the toys (see "How to Build Your Own Lifter" on preceding page). More than a million fans have flocked to his site, and hundreds have contacted him to report their own successful flights. News crews from the Discovery Channel to Nippon TV have traveled here to film Ventura's lab, making him the public face of antigravity - the Linus Torvalds, as it were, of lifters.
~Crack