UK Patent GB2347912A/B: Flying Craft with Gravity Wave Manipulation and FTL Travel (Avey)

Patent Number: GB2347912A (application), GB2347912B (granted) Title: Flying Craft Inventor: James Allen Avey, 99 Queensway, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 1LH, United Kingdom Assignee: Individual Filed: March 9, 1999; Published September 20, 2000; Granted November 5, 2003 Status: Expired - Fee Related (expiration 2019-03-09) Classification: B64G 1/00 (space vehicles); UK CL: B7W WBS WPF W611 B7G G43A Jurisdiction: United Kingdom (foreign) Track Directory (Physics_Math): N/A — gravity wave manipulation / ion circulation / FTL claim domain; no current track covers gravitational wave engineering; candidate for a future spacetime manipulation track

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Full Abstract (from patent front page)

"The craft comprises a polished aluminium shell S, containing spiral coils W, generators M, diodes D, condensers C, and a control panel O, and affording access via an entrance A. Electric motors may also be present. Reference is made to the outer surface of the shell being charged, to ions being allowed out of the top of the shell and in at the bottom of the shell, to the ions being oscillated, and to a high frequency carrier wave being modulated so that a gravity wave is bent around the craft enabling the craft to float. Reference is also made to the craft being capable of travelling at many times faster than the speed of light."

Structural Description

The cross-section diagram shows the complete spherical craft: polished aluminium shell (S) enclosing spiral coils (W) lining the interior surface, two generators (M) at opposite poles, diodes (D) and condensers (C) in the circuit path, central entrance (A) to a habitable interior, and control panel (O).

Arrows on the shell exterior show upward ion flow at the top and downward ion flow at the bottom, indicating a vertical ion circulation — ions ejected upward from the positive-charged upper shell, traveling ballistically, re-entering at the negative-charged lower shell, completing the circuit through the internal diode-condenser network.

Physics Mechanism: Ion Circulation and Gravitational Wave Coupling

The ion circulation creates an upward momentum flux from the craft (Newton's third law: craft pushed downward by ions emitted upward, but the re-absorption of ions at the bottom provides a net momentum cycle). The "oscillation" of the ions at a frequency matching a "high-frequency carrier wave" is the proposed mechanism for generating the gravitational effect: oscillating charged particles produce oscillating electromagnetic fields, and at sufficient frequency and amplitude, Avey claims these fields couple to and deform the local gravitational field — the "gravity wave bending around the craft" enabling levitation.

The mechanism is not elaborated with mathematical formalism in the patent. The implicit theoretical basis is that oscillating electromagnetic fields can couple to the gravitational field through stress-energy tensor contributions — formally, oscillating electromagnetic energy density modifies T_μν in the Einstein field equations:

G_μν = 8πG/c⁴ × T_μν

The electromagnetic stress-energy tensor T^μν_EM is:

T^μν_EM = (1/μ₀)[F^μα F^ν_α − (1/4)g^μν F_αβ F^αβ]

For oscillating fields at high frequency and amplitude, the time-averaged electromagnetic energy density ⟨u_EM⟩ = ½(ε₀E² + B²/μ₀) contributes to the effective stress-energy sourcing the gravitational field. However, for macroscopic levitation via this mechanism, the required field energy densities are astronomical — many orders of magnitude beyond any achievable electromagnetic system. Avey does not address this problem.

FTL Claim

The craft's ability to travel "at many times faster than the speed of light" is the most extraordinary claim in the patent. The mechanism proposed — bending gravity waves around the craft — is presumably intended as a UAP warp-drive analog: if the gravitational geometry around the craft can be deformed (warped spacetime), then from the craft's local inertial frame no speed-of-light violation occurs; the apparent FTL transit results from spacetime shortening rather than coordinate velocity exceeding c. This is consistent with the Alcubierre warp drive metric (1994) and the broader class of metric engineering proposals. However, the patent's engineering description does not develop this connection or cite Alcubierre.

Patent Grant Without Physical Plausibility Requirement

This is the only patent in the archive making an explicit faster-than-light travel claim that was formally granted by the UK Intellectual Property Office. The UK IPO, unlike the USPTO, does not require claims to be physically plausible as a condition for grant — only novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability in a qualified sense are required. The grant does not validate the FTL claim but does confirm the filing received full examination and passed on formal patentability grounds.

The documents cited in the patent (GB2262844A, GB0830816A, JP100220342A, GB080156896A, JP020005767A) suggest Avey was aware of prior art in ion-propulsion and electromagnetic craft design from multiple jurisdictions.

Sources

• GB2347912A/B on UK IPO — search by patent number
• Alcubierre, M. (1994) — "The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity," Classical and Quantum Gravity 11(5):L73
• Einstein field equations — G_μν = 8πG/c⁴ × T_μν

This information was compiled from Break_thrus.mdx staging file.