Mikado, I can't say for certain (the whole "French vacuum test" thing is still pretty much a mystery...), but my best guess would be that he was using the "tethered saucer" approach to his tests in France, as he had with the demonstrations in Los Angeles a few years before he went to France. If that hunch is correct, then I might further surmise that the success of those tests in France was what mandated the need for some kind of "untethered" power source, which would have been the mother to the invention of the flame-jet generator.Mikado14 wrote:Did he use a Flame Jet Generator to produce his requirements? I would bet those navy beans he didn't. It was a dead end for him and was not his path.
Then, maybe something better came along in the mid-60s.
I suspect that there was also a difference between the devices tested in France and those demonstrated in Los Angeles: the difference between "solid" and "fluid" dielectrics.
--PS