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| birth_date = | | birth_date = 1952 | ||
| residence = | | birth_place = Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States | ||
| known_for = [[Gravity]] | | residence = Puyallup, Washington, United States | ||
| nationality = American | |||
| fields = Electronics engineering | |||
| workplaces = [[Boeing]] | |||
| alma_mater = Northrop Institute of Technology | |||
| known_for = Gyroscopic inertial propulsion, control moment gyroscopes, [[Gravity]] | |||
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Michael Allen Gamble was born in Fergus Falls, | '''Michael Allen Gamble''' (born 1952) is an American electronics engineer, formerly a principal engineer at [[Boeing]], who is known within alternative-propulsion circles for his advocacy of gyroscopic inertial propulsion. Gamble contends that mechanical systems built around scissoring [[gyroscope]]s and control moment gyros can produce useful thrust, a claim that lies outside mainstream physics, which holds that such devices cannot generate net reactionless force. | ||
==Biography== | |||
Gamble was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1952. After high school he worked for about five years as an automotive mechanic before returning to college. He earned a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the Northrop Institute of Technology in Inglewood, California, graduating magna cum laude in 1978. | |||
For roughly the next decade Gamble worked for several small companies, first as a field service engineer in the wood-products industry and later as an electronics engineer in the automotive fuel-injection field, with assignments in both the United States and China. During this period he received recognition from the U.S. Department of Defense's Director of Research and Engineering for field-service work in Melbourne, Australia, connected with recovery of an F/A-18 test program. | |||
Gamble joined The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, in September 1985 and remained there for about thirty years, serving as a principal electronics engineer. Over that time he worked on both commercial and classified aerospace programs, and in his later years he was part of Boeing's Phantom Works research-and-development group, working with smart-material (nitinol) actuators used to morph structures such as rotor blades, engine nacelles, wings and flaps. He also managed an R&D laboratory whose work ranged from conventional aerospace engineering to what he has described as "exotic" technologies. | |||
After retiring from Boeing, Gamble continued to write and speak on energy and space-propulsion topics and to conduct hands-on experiments in his own home laboratory in the spirit of citizen science. He lives on a working farm in Puyallup, Washington, with his wife Ellen; the couple have two children. | |||
==Scientific contributions== | |||
Gamble's public work centers on the idea that spinning gyroscopes can be used as a propulsion mechanism. Drawing on Boeing's history of control moment gyroscope (CMG) research—work he says began in the 1960s and continued until a Seattle-area earthquake damaged the test laboratory in 2001—he has described how satellites use forced precession of gyroscopes for attitude control and station keeping. In a typical CMG arrangement, several gyros are "scissored" together so that their precession torques combine to reorient a spacecraft. | |||
Extending this principle, Gamble argues that a properly arranged set of oscillating or scissoring gyroscopes can produce a net linear thrust, effectively acting as a "space drive" that requires no propellant. He has built small demonstration models intended to show an apparent unidirectional force and has presented videos and data from these experiments at gatherings such as the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC) and the Conference on Future Energy (COFE). | |||
These claims are not accepted by mainstream physics. The conservation of momentum implies that an isolated device cannot produce sustained reactionless thrust, and effects seen in gyroscopic demonstrations are generally attributed to conventional reaction forces, vibration, friction or measurement artifacts rather than a new propulsion principle. Gamble presents his work as an ongoing investigation and as a challenge to conventional understanding of inertia and [[gravity]]. | |||
==Abstracts== | ==Abstracts== | ||
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* 2011 - "[[Study of Gravity, Part 1]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6139.pdf Read in full]) | * 2011 - "[[Study of Gravity, Part 1]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6139.pdf Read in full]) | ||
* 2011 - "[[Study of Gravity, Part 2]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6140.pdf Read in full]) | * 2011 - "[[Study of Gravity, Part 2]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6140.pdf Read in full]) | ||
==External links== | |||
* [https://www.altpropulsion.com/people/mike-gamble/ Mike Gamble profile at the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference] | |||
* [https://integrityresearchinstitute.org/Gamble-BoeingCMG.pdf "History of Boeing (CMG) Control Moment Gyros" (Integrity Research Institute)] | |||
[[Category:Scientist|Gamble Michael]] | [[Category:Scientist|Gamble Michael]] | ||
Revision as of 09:48, 17 July 2026
Mike Gamble | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States |
| Residence | Puyallup, Washington, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Northrop Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Gyroscopic inertial propulsion, control moment gyroscopes, Gravity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electronics engineering |
| Institutions | Boeing |
Michael Allen Gamble (born 1952) is an American electronics engineer, formerly a principal engineer at Boeing, who is known within alternative-propulsion circles for his advocacy of gyroscopic inertial propulsion. Gamble contends that mechanical systems built around scissoring gyroscopes and control moment gyros can produce useful thrust, a claim that lies outside mainstream physics, which holds that such devices cannot generate net reactionless force.
Biography
Gamble was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1952. After high school he worked for about five years as an automotive mechanic before returning to college. He earned a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the Northrop Institute of Technology in Inglewood, California, graduating magna cum laude in 1978.
For roughly the next decade Gamble worked for several small companies, first as a field service engineer in the wood-products industry and later as an electronics engineer in the automotive fuel-injection field, with assignments in both the United States and China. During this period he received recognition from the U.S. Department of Defense's Director of Research and Engineering for field-service work in Melbourne, Australia, connected with recovery of an F/A-18 test program.
Gamble joined The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, in September 1985 and remained there for about thirty years, serving as a principal electronics engineer. Over that time he worked on both commercial and classified aerospace programs, and in his later years he was part of Boeing's Phantom Works research-and-development group, working with smart-material (nitinol) actuators used to morph structures such as rotor blades, engine nacelles, wings and flaps. He also managed an R&D laboratory whose work ranged from conventional aerospace engineering to what he has described as "exotic" technologies.
After retiring from Boeing, Gamble continued to write and speak on energy and space-propulsion topics and to conduct hands-on experiments in his own home laboratory in the spirit of citizen science. He lives on a working farm in Puyallup, Washington, with his wife Ellen; the couple have two children.
Scientific contributions
Gamble's public work centers on the idea that spinning gyroscopes can be used as a propulsion mechanism. Drawing on Boeing's history of control moment gyroscope (CMG) research—work he says began in the 1960s and continued until a Seattle-area earthquake damaged the test laboratory in 2001—he has described how satellites use forced precession of gyroscopes for attitude control and station keeping. In a typical CMG arrangement, several gyros are "scissored" together so that their precession torques combine to reorient a spacecraft.
Extending this principle, Gamble argues that a properly arranged set of oscillating or scissoring gyroscopes can produce a net linear thrust, effectively acting as a "space drive" that requires no propellant. He has built small demonstration models intended to show an apparent unidirectional force and has presented videos and data from these experiments at gatherings such as the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC) and the Conference on Future Energy (COFE).
These claims are not accepted by mainstream physics. The conservation of momentum implies that an isolated device cannot produce sustained reactionless thrust, and effects seen in gyroscopic demonstrations are generally attributed to conventional reaction forces, vibration, friction or measurement artifacts rather than a new propulsion principle. Gamble presents his work as an ongoing investigation and as a challenge to conventional understanding of inertia and gravity.
Abstracts
- 2011 - "Study of Gravity, Part 1" (Read in full)
- 2011 - "Study of Gravity, Part 2" (Read in full)