Throughout history there have been legends of ancient flight
from magic carpets to chariots of fire to fire breathing dragons to wheels
spinning within wheels, sometimes fiery wheels!
All of which have been dismissed as legends. But are they?
In his book legends of ancient Chinese science Robert
Silverberg says that Chinese myths tell of a legendary people the Chi-Kung who
traveled in “aerial carriages”. In ancient Chinese scripts “The Records of the
Scholars” it states the Han dynasty astronomer and engineer Chang Hang made a
wooden bird that had a flight duration of up to a mile.
In 320 B.C., a book written by Ko Hung who was a mystic and
alchemist wrote “some have made flying cars with wood from the inner part of
the jujube tree, using ox leather straps fastened to revolving blades so as to
set the machine in motion”. This was the description of a propeller!
The origin of space flight originates in ancient China with
the development of gunpowder to include the development of rockets. Charcoal and sulfer had long been
experimented with as ingredients of gunpowder or incendiary compounds. By 1044 BCE, the Chinese had learned that
saltpeter added to the incendiary compound was a catalyst and amplified the
explosion greatly.
At some point in the mid-9th century it was
discovered that if you finely grind charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter to a ratio
of 1:1:4 and pack the mixture into a closed container when ignited it will have
an explosion!
The first flying objects the Chinese developed were rocket
powered arrows, then grenades and iron clad bombs, quite similar to ones used
today.
The first two stage rocket is credited to the Chinese in the
11th century A.D. And was called the fire dragon rocket. While enroute rocket arrows were ignited and
flew at great speeds from the mouth of the dragon! It was the first cluster two stage bomb.
When the Mong attacked Karfeng in 1232 B.C. which was the
capital of what is now the Gin dynasty the Gin were able to hold off the Mong's
with a secret weapon. They would lower iron bombs from chains from a top of the
city walls right into the mass of the attacking enemy. They would also use an “arrow of flying fire”
which whistled as it flew through the mass of attacking Mongol's exploding and
sending the war elephants and horses into a panicked stampede.
One of the early purposes of the arrows of fire was to
instigate stampedes, cause confusion among the war elephants that were commonly
used in southwest and southeast Asia in ancient times.
The Chinese inventor and Wan Hoo, in 1500A.D. are credited
with developing the first rocket propelled craft. It was essentially a chair
with a wooden frame built around it; they strapped forty seven rockets to the
frame, attached two very large kites to the top of the frame.
He then strapped himself into the chair, he signaled his
servants to approach with torches, hey simultaneously ignited the rockets,
momentarily ignition took place with a large bang, with a large black cloud,
Wan Hoo was instantly vaporized; end of story!
There is evidence that gunpowder was in use during the time
of Christ! There were several formulas for gunpowder. The alchemist Rodger Bacon used a formula of
7 parts saltpeter 5 parts of young hazelnut wood and five of sulpher.
In 1280 A.D .the Syrian Al-Haseen-Ar-Rammah wrote the book
the” Art of fighting on horseback with war engines”. Ar-Rammah told of the importance of saltpeter
in the incendiary process and gave ways of purifying the compound.
He also discussed rockets that he called “Chinese Arrow’s”. The
Chinese also invented the first Roman Candles, flame throwers and also mortars.
The Roman candles were loosely packed with nails or small
stones. In the chronicles of the city of Ghent in1313 A.D. states that “In this
year the use of guns was found for the first time by a German monk.” In 1326 a
manuscript shows a primitive gun called vasa.
The vasa was basically a dart gun. In 1340 King Edward III of England and the
cities of Aachen and Cambrai all purchased gunpowder and guns. Guns evolved into cannons. Cannons evolved
into long guns, which had better directional stability and accuracy. There were
also short guns often called mortars.
Grenades were in use by the time of the Crusades. The Knight
Templars brought this technology to medieval Europe. It wasn’t long before the “black powder
musket” was developed and was cheap enough for the peasant classes to purchase.
This coincided with the revolution of independence of the
peoples under the rule of monarchs. For
the common man was now able to protect himself and his property against thugs,
drunken soldiers and thieves. All one in
the same really. He could now face these aggressors on equal footing. “God created man but Sam Colt made all men
equal.”
After the development of gunpowder and weapons came the
development of aviation. At first hot air balloons were a common site
throughout the developed world. Next was powered flight in craft designed as
birds.
In 1972 the first exhibit of ancient Egyptian model aircraft
was opened in the Egyptian Hall of the Museum for Antiquities. Dr. Abide Hatum presented fourteen ancient
model aircraft to the public. In the tomb of King Tutankhamen, boomerangs were
found. This verifies the Egyptian
interest in aerodynamics.
One of the first pioneers of flight was Daedalus who
constructed wings for his son Icarus and himself. They were able to have achieved flight
however it is said his son flew to high and fell into the sea now called the
Icarian Sea.
I however dispute this part of the legend. I believe he
didn’t fly to high; he just didn’t master basic flight maneuvers like stall
recovery.
The alchemist Rodger Bacon was quoted as saying “Flying machines
as these were as old and are made even in our days.” This quote was from the 13th
century. This statement is evidence of flying machines that had been a reality
of ancient flight and also existed in Bacon’s time.
These seem quite farfetched based on our history; however the
same history is flooded with legends and chronicles of airships in the remote
past!
It is quite interesting that Chinese literature such as
Emperor Shum (c. 2258-2208 B.C.) constructed not only a flying craft but also
designed a parachute during the time of Daedus and his gliders.
Emperor Cheng Tang (1766B.C.) who ordered Ki-Kung-Shi to
design a flying chariot. It is said that he developed an aircraft that reached
the province of Honan on his test flight. It was said that this machine was
destroyed by order of the Emperor Cheng Tang who was afraid that this
technology would fall into the wrong hands.
In 300 B.C. the Chinese poet Chu Yuam wrote of his flight in
a chariot on a high flight over the Gobi desert going towards the Mum Lon Mountains.
He describes how the aircraft was unaffected by the winds and the dust of the
Gobi desert and described an aerial survey that he conducted on that trip.
Chinese folklore has many descriptions such as these. In the
province of Shantung there is a stone carving dated to A.D. 147 showing a
flying dragon chariot, high above the clouds.
The historian Ko Hung wrote in the 4th century “flying cars
with wood from the inner part of the jujube tree, using ox leather straps
fastened to rotary blades to set the machine in motion.”
Leonardo da Vinci had also designed a functional helicopter,
along with many other futuristic designs for the time, all of which bore fruit
in the years to come. It is felt his
helicopter design came from his studies of China technologies.
Someone once asked me if a helicopter was as safe as an
airplane? I replied “that machine is trying to kill you from the moment it
leaves the factory!” Although a helicopter
doesn’t need a long landing zone to touch down in, it is much more difficult to
control. When a helicopter loses lift it
falls like a rock. When an airplane loses
power you go into a controlled glide path where you can select a landing site,
set up a glide approach, and have a pretty good chance of surviving the crash
landing depending on the terrain more than anything else.
This is true for small
fixed wing aircraft such as Cessna’s, larger aircraft jets, airliners, fighter
jets have a much smaller wing span and rely on thrust propulsion from jet
engines to create lift.
It is interesting that the models of the Egyptian “bird”
figurines taken from tombs in the Valley of the Kings have a relatively large
wingspan in relation to the size of the fuselage of the craft, along with
vertical rudders which are not present anywhere in nature.
There is a camber to the leading edge of the wing which affects
airflow to the wing. As air encounters
the wing part of the airstream goes over the top of the wing and part goes
under the wing. The air going under the wing has a higher pressure and flows
faster than the air going over the wing which is a lower pressure and thus
causes lift.
When you lose power the air stream slows down and thus lift
is lost. You either drop the nose of the airplane thus increasing speed and
lift or you raise the nose of the aircraft which increases the angle of attack
or angle of the leading edge of the wing to the airstream. When this angle becomes too great you have what’s
called a “stall” and the plane looses all of its lift and falls from the
sky. This in a controlled fashion is
exactly how you land an airplane.
When you select a landing zone, weather it is a runway, or in
the case of power failure and you need to make an emergency landing. Typically in a Cessna you reduce power to
1500 RPM as you go into a controlled decent. You are losing about 500 feet per
minute, you are flying down wind along the path of your runway and a couple of
hundred of feet to the side of the runway. In the case of an emergency landing
you are assessing the landing field for obstructions.
When you have past
the end of the runway about a quarter of a mile you make a left turn onto the
base leg. Using a standard rate turn of
fifteen degrees, continuing in a controlled descent, if you are losing too much
altitude you apply power to add lift. As
you pull back on the yoke ,which controls the rear elevator, which controls
vertical descent, as you come abreast of the runway still using standard rate
turns of fifteen degrees you turn on to the final approach. Lining up with the center of the runway,
controlling decent with adding or subtracting power, when over the runway at
the desired point of touch down, you should only be a few feet over the runway
at this point not twenty feet in the air!
You pull back on the yolk, you will hear a horn going off
when the nose of the aircraft raises and you lose lift, the horn is the stall
alarm which is activated from the wings losing lift, and you are falling out of
the sky backwards, with your nose higher than the tail of the plane.
You will land on your
rear wheels. When you go to a small
general aviation airport where private pilots learn to fly you can sit back and
watch the planes come in frequently flaring or going into a stall to high off
the runway and bouncing down the runway because of landing at a high a rate of
speed and at the point of stall you don’t have control of the airplane you have
lost all lift.
Ok—end of your first flying lesson, now when your pilot has a
heart attack you run up to the cockpit and save everyone from instant
devastation!! (not)
Gliders also have the same flight characteristics as a
powered flight. Going into a stall is
the first stage of a plane going into a tail spin. If you don’t recover from a stall given
enough altitude you will go into a tail spin, you will be looking straight down
at the ground, as your plane is spinning down towards it, your body will be
having increased pressure called G-forces, you are puking at this point and losing
consciousness, your body weight has actually doubled, it is difficult to raise
your arms, your ears are popping.
The way to recover from this free fall is to
push the yoke all the way forward, which takes training to do because you are
diving towards the ground and it is the natural instinct to pull the yoke away
from the ground but that keeps you in the stall, as you are pushing forward on
the yoke you step on the foot pedal opposite of the direction of the spin,
hopefully you have enough altitude and you will level off and go into a rapid
climb that you will control with your airspeed, as you climb to altitude and
the plane starts to slow down. Quite
frankly this in a more controlled fashion is exactly what glider pilots do.
They search for airwaves coming off differ types of ground foliage mountain
ranges and winds from bodies of water.
This is exactly what happened to Icarus on the first glider
flight recorded by man. He went into a stall and didn’t know how to recover
from it, the stall went into a tail spin, and he didn’t feel a thing by the
time he smacked into the Icarus Sea, which is the equivalent to a head on
collision with a brick wall!
On the Magdalene River in Columbia there have been many
ancient discoveries of gold figurines, some of which are in the Columbia
governments gold museum in Bogata some of these figurines
have a delta wing design. When you line
them up in a “V” pattern they have a very disturbing effect. They look exactly like a fighter squadron.
Scientists have been confused for years even building a model to see how it
would function in actual flight.
They have a smaller wing span as compared to the fuselage and
they were triangular in shape which means they require more power to maintain
lift very similar to a fighter jet, perhaps even the space shuttle. The Egyptian figurines the Sakkara bird,
looks exactly like a glider.
The Hebrew King Solomon, son of King David, who built
Solomon’s Temple, which housed the Ark of the Covenant, which was some sort of
electrical-power-communication device, and also a weapon of war.
King Solomon, around 1000 B.C., had a romantic affair with
the Ethiopian Queen of Sheba, Queen Makedu who came to pay homage and came bearing
many gifts. Peacocks, myrrh and perfumes, exotic woods and monkeys, jewels, and
four and a half tons of gold.
Queen makedu stayed with king Solomon for several months and
then returned to her kingdom in Ethiopia.
According to the Kebra Negast, the most sacred book of the Ethiopians,
it is considered to be their equivalent of the Old Testament and frequently
referred to as the “glory of the Kings”.
Upon her return to Ethiopia, Queen Makedu bore King Solomon’s
son, Prince Menelik I, this created the Solomonic Dynasty in Ethiopia, which
would last for the next 3,000 years.
This line of rulers was unbroken until 1974 when the 225th
ruler Emperor Haile Selassie was disposed.
In 1976 in a secret rescue extraction of ten of the Emperors
children and grandchildren were depicted in a book by Jodie Collins called Code
Word: Catherine.
According to the Kebra Negast King Solomon would visit his
son and the Queen of Sheba by flying there in a “heavenly car” “the King and all who obeyed his word, flew
on the wagon without pain and suffering, and without sweat and exhaustion and
traveled in one day a distance which took three months to travel on foot.”
Throughout the Middle East as far away as Kashmir are
mountain ranges called the “Thrones of Solomon” including one in northwest
Iran. It is on a flat topped mountain called Takht-i-Suleiman. It’s thought
that these were landing zones for King Solomon.
Incidentally, mountain tops aren’t flat, they are rugged at
best! Flat topped mountains aren’t natural they are manmade or if you will,
extraterrestrial made, with human help!
It is legend throughout Central Asia that King Solomon traveled in an
airship “up to now, in the peoples conception, King Solomon soars on his miraculous
flying device, soaring over the vast spaces of Asia.”
Many mountain ranges of Asia are either with ruins or stones
bearing the footprints or knee prints of King Solomon imbedded in the stone.
Evidence of his long lasting prayers. These are the thrones of Solomon.
From an archeological point of view the concept that
civilization started in Sumeria is a fairly recent analogy. It was evidently
thought that for hundreds of thousands of years man lived in an unorganized
helter skelter existence, until around 9,000 B.C. when the Sumerian
civilization was dated to. However the civilization of southwest and southeast
Asia are now thought to have existed prior to the Sumerian civilization.
Indian records go back tens of thousands of years. It wasn’t
until the 1920’s that scientists felt that the Indian civilization was much
older than originally thought. Up until
the 1920’s it was felt that India was dated to within a few hundred years of
Alexander the Great...SORRY!!
In the mid 1800’s discoveries were made on several ancient
settlement in the Indus valley of northwestern India, Pakistan and eastern
Afghanistan. Excavations didn’t happen for another hundred years. In the 1920’s
it was discovered that the area of the Indus valley had a civilization of well
over five million indigenous populants.
Archeologists are
still exploring the area and as late as 1999 major population areas are being
discovered. To date there are over 1100, villages, settlements and cities being
studied. These sites include Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, Ganweriwales, Bholavira,
and Rakhreaki.
The area of this civilization is spread over 1,260,000.km this
is also known as the Harappan civilization and is dated to 1900 B.C. This is
the oldest known settlement known to science and much older than the Sumerian
civilization.
The Indus valley was a center for the production of bronze,
copper, tin, and leads. It is felt the metallurgy of this area was the reason
for its growth and highly developed language, buildings which were built with
brick, they had drainage systems, they included multi-level structures, running
water, sewers leading out to streets, they had separation between drinking and
sewer waters. The road systems were very advanced, in a city grid system, way
ahead of their times.
The Indus valley language hasn’t been interpreted as of yet
however there are significant similarities between the Indus valley scripts and
those of Easter Island. Very
strange. Based on information gained
from the Sumerian tablets, this will be quite interesting when finally
interpreted. It is felt that the Indus valley languages are related to the Dravidian
civilization.
Modern scholar’s value Hindu scripts because they haven’t had
their scripts destroyed, manipulated, and lost to antiquity like Christian
documents have been. They are considered to be a direct connection to ancient
libraries.
The super civilization known as the Rama Empire is described in
the Ramayana, which describes the truths of the past. The Ramayana describes
the adventure of Prince Ramma who marries a beautiful woman whose name was
Sila. After some years of marriage she became unfaithful and departed with
Ramma’s enemy Ravanna.
Ravanna takes Sila by a vimana to his capital city on an
island called Lanru. Ramma uses his own
vimana and a group of friends and loyal subjects to fly to Lanru to take his
wife back.
The Prince brings Sila back home to the city called Ajodhya
where she is then banished to the forest for infidelity.
Rama after several years of unhappiness retrieves Sila from
the forest and they live happily ever after (?). Every year a festival takes
place to honor Rama and a mock vimana is paraded through the town...
Nearly every Hindu and Buddhist has heard of the ancient
flying craft called vimana referred to in the Ramayana and other ancient texts.
In the texts the Maharshi Bhardwaj consists of forty
sections, one of these sections has eight chapters which details aeronautical
knowledge. It has over one hundred
topics and five hundred historic phrases.
In the Maharshi Bhardwaj has described the vimana aerial
craft which were in three categories; (1) that travel from place to place; (2)
those that fly from one country to another;(3) those that fly in between
planets.
Special attention was paid to military aircraft. These
descriptions are of great detail; they had to be impregnable, unbreakable,
noncombustible, indestructible and capable of coming to a dead stop
immediately; invisible to enemies; capable of listening to conversations and
sounds in hostile planes; to know at every stage the direction and movement of
other aircraft in the vicinity; technically proficient to see and record
things; people; incidents and situations going on inside enemy planes; capable
of rendering the enemy crew into a state of suspended animation, intellectual
stupor or complete loss of consciousness; capable of destruction; manned by
pilots and co-travelers who could adapt in accordance to the climate in which
they moved; temperature regulated inside; constructed of very light and heat
absorbing metals; provided with mechanisms that could enlarge or reduce images
and could enhance and reduce sounds.
Notwithstanding the fact that this would resemble the cross
between a stealth bomber and a flying saucer.
I think we just described “God”!
Does this mean that space and air travel were well known to
ancient Indians and that space/ aircraft were prominent in the ancient world,
when the rest of the known world was essentially in the Stone Age?
It would seem based on these ancient texts that modern
Indians consider themselves as part of a bigger puzzle. Aerial battle and
chases are common in ancient Hindu literature.
“Ancient Hindu texts speak of vimana’s as an aerial chariot
with sides of iron and clad with wings.”
The Rayamanna describes a vimana as a double decked circular
aircraft with portholes and a dome. It flew with the “speed of the winds” and
produced a “melodious sound” or a humming noise.
Ancient Indian texts on vimana’s are so numerous that you
could devote an entire book on them just to present the information that they
convey. One source would be “Vimana
Aircraft of ancient India and Atlantis.” By David Childress Hatcher.
The Indians wrote entire flight manuals on the care and
various types of vimana. The Sanaru Sulradhara deals with the complete process
of air travel in a vimana. There are 230
stanzas dealing with the construction,
takeoff, traveling for thousands of miles, normal and forced landings, even
collisions with birds.
With all of this literary evidence of ancient flight, where
are the Vimana? Perhaps today they are
called UFO’s!
In 1875 the Vaimanika
Sastra, a forth century B.C., script written by Maharishi Bhardwat was
rediscovered in a temple in India. The book deals with vimana operations
including information on steering systems, preparations for long flights,
protection of spacecraft from storms and lightening, how to “switch the drive
from solar energy to gravitational drive”.
Vimana’s take off vertically and were capable of hovering in
the sky, like a modern helicopter. This
text makes frequent reference to seventy authorities and ten experts in air
travel in antiquity. These references are now lost or haven’t been rediscovered
yet.
Vimana’s were kept in a hanger or Griah and were using a fuel
that was yellowish white in appearance.
Vimana were present all over the world!
Aside from travel they were also war machines!
The plains of Nazca in Peru are famous for appearing from
high altitude and especially from space, and appearing a rather complex
geometric design.
Rama and Atlantis had outposts in antiquity. Easter Island is
diametrically opposite of Mohenjo-daro on the globe. It is very interesting that the civilization
of the Indus Valley developed their own language and writing’s which are very
similar to carving and tablets of Easter Island. The only place’s in the world that these scripts
with this writing systems have been found is on Easter Island and the Indus
valley.
Would it be possible that a worldwide trading empire existed
using vimana’s by the Ramma and Atlantis civilization? Just a thought!
