Cavorite X5’s Test Flights

Dean Sigler Electric Powerplants, Hybrid Aircraft, Sky Taxis, Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment

The Cavorite X5, now in developmental test flights, that came from the inspiration of H. G. Wells.  Cavorite was the mysterious metal in Wells’ First Men in the Moon, discovered by Dr. Cavor.  He explains it to his friends, who are attempting to reach the earthly satellite: “Well, so soon as it reached a temperature of 60 Fahr[enheit], and the process of its manufacture was complete, the air above it, the portions of roof and ceiling and floor above it ceased to have weight. I suppose you know – everybody knows nowadays – that, as a usual thing, the air has weight, that it presses on everything at the surface of the earth, presses in all directions, with a pressure of fourteen and a half pounds to the square inch? ” “I know that,” said I. “Go on.” “I know that too,” he remarked. “Only this shows you how useless knowledge is unless you apply it. You see, over our …