The Soviet scientific school was one of the most powerful on the planet, so it is not surprising that the number of discoveries that were made by scientists of the USSR. However, something does not fit into this optimistic picture: there are projects that even today's scientists regard as brilliant, but they turned out to be "wrapped up" by the party elite, and some of them are generally classified. And only in recent years, at least some information about them began to appear in the public domain. At one time, the same fate befell one of the developments of the famous Soviet scientist Filimonenko - a real magnetic plane.
The Soviet physicist Ivan Stepanovich Filimonenko was first spoken about in the mid-1950s, when he was still young. He is known primarily as the person who introduced the method of cold nuclear fusion, which, however, has not yet been successfully reproduced, at least in laboratory conditions. Another project, with which the name Filimonenko is associated, shows him as a designer, and not just a nuclear physicist. It's about his magnetic plane.
Ivan Stepanovich Filimonenko.
Not much is known about this project, because it was declassified quite recently. Evidence of eyewitnesses of the operation of the Filimonenko's radio was also preserved: for example, they argued that the mechanism of its movement was based on repulsion from the Earth's magnetic field. Excerpts from the official comments to the development are also known - presumably, they were compiled personally by the author: "It interacts on charged disks, with the earth's magnetic field, resulting in the Lorentz force, which means and moves the aircraft."
Structurally, Filimonenko's magnetic aircraft consisted of two disks that rotated in opposite directions and were needed to balance the interaction system. It is also assumed that the device is based on a thermal emission device, as well as a screening circuit from an external magnetic field. The interaction of charged particles and a magnetic field provided the thrust of the radio.
Diagram of the design of the radio.
The available sources with information on this project provide other scattered data about the device. So, for example, the material from which the disks of the radio is known is an insulator interspersed with metal particles, and all of them interacted with a magnetic field: during movement perpendicular to the field, the interaction force becomes maximum, and with parallel movement it completely disappears.
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Some figures were also published, reflecting the operation of the apparatus and calculated personally by Filimonenko: the rotational speed of the disks should be about 1000 rpm - such indicators would be enough for the lifting force of a magnetic plane to reach “tens of tons”. And the thrust was controlled by slowing down or accelerating the speed of rotation of the discs.
Drawings from the declassified project Filimonenko.
The project was very ambitious, and Filomonenko needed the support of someone eminent in order to be able to develop his brainchild. And, according to some reports, he had it: so, according to Novate.ru, the scientist was taken under the wing of two scientific luminaries at once - Kurchatov and Korolev. This continued until the mid-1960s, but after the death of scientists, work on the project was curtailed, and all information was classified. According to rumors, Marshal Zhukov personally had a hand in this.
Filimonenko's radio could have a flattened appearance, like that of EKIP.
After that, nothing was heard about the unique project for more than thirty years - only at the end of the nineties of the last century, the designer was able to return to his magnetics. However, information about this period of development never appeared, and in 2013 Ivan Stepanovich Filimonenko died.
And only a few years ago the first mentions of this project appeared, because the secrecy label was removed from it. At the same time, there are many skeptics, including among scientists, who consider information about a magnetic plane to be nothing more than a newspaper duck, but it is possible to fully understand this story only after the information about Filimonenko's developments is published in full.
