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the straight scoop on Bob Neal info
I am the Neal dude. This page explains in an entertaining and non-technical way what makes the facts about Bob Neal's method of compressing air for free so hard to find online, and why I am considered the horse's mouth by those who have been in the field with the horses for some time. Expressions regarding other portions of the horse's anatomy are reserved for use by those who disagree, since my being the Neal Dude doesn't actually mean I own any part of Neal's brain, which was unfortunately not pickled for perpetuity at the patent office when he died. The proof is in the pudding, and I am the first to admit that the pudding is still being set up.
air car forum
Air Car Access and Pneumatic Options Research Library forum are happy to announce...a friendly place for compressed air researchers and inventors to come together for shop talk, design critiques, and just plain passing the gas around.
my most popular book
Compressed Air Power Secrets, 3rd Edition A technical book for people who hate technical books. All you have to know is a little (very little) simple algebra in order to ingest this whole 374-page book. It will make you smarter than me if you aren't already. After 29 years of studying compressed air I still didn't understand the math so I studied several compressed air textbooks to find out what I didn't know. I forced myself to come to an understanding of everything I read and analyzed the reasons why it was so hard to figure out, and all the details of this quest, within reason, are included in the book. This is the book you need in order to teach yourself how air works and what the calculations mean.
historical air cars
Another chapter of history that never made it into the official version of "history": real air cars!
if you're an airhead too, select Door Number 1
This has been my personal research dissemination project since 1979. Beware of cheap imitations, which can be identified easily since they are cautious enough to not copy my jokes. To get your two cents in, join the forum.
descriptions of downloadable materials
Free information, all described on these pages (in the next six sub-categories to follow) and download links are provided.
older compressed air textbooks
Older textbooks spelled it out more clearly than modern ones. Here are the classics, and more are available.
books I wrote
Book projects have kept me going since I was 11 years old. My theory about Big Publishing is that they don't need me and I don't need them.
compilations
Large compilations of my research findings on specific topics such as "free-range" air cars, "hybrid" air cars, etc.
acoustic power
Doing work with sound waves; the air is the main moving part. The picture at right shows an oscillatory torque converter invented by George Constantinesco, who had many patents on acoustic power. Acoustic power is also routinely used to supercharge racing motorcycles without a supercharger.
Terry Miller pictures
Download links for better resolution pictures from Terry Miller's plans. This is the best quality available, though still from photocopies. All are free.
Neal tank
An air tank is full of energy, why fight it? Just use the energy in the tank to put more air into the tank, instead of fighting against the existing pressure in the tank.
Compressed air is solar energy
Proof from textbooks that the work of compression is all lost as heat, leaving the heat of the sun as the only source of energy in most of the compressed air used for everyday applications.
Resonance
Many people believe that resonance is the working principle behind Bob Neal's self-filling air tank.
Gas Buggies
by Frank Beck
For over a year, cartoonist Frank Beck devoted Gas Buggies—a daily cartoon strip syndicated to newspapers across the U.S—to the notion of a free range air car.
Tank injector
For a long time people thought this was Neal's idea because it was first published on my Neal Tank web page. Some people still think Neal's tank worked this way, and maybe they're right.
General Herman Haupt, C.E.
The world's first air car advocate, General Herman Haupt ran the railroads for President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Goofy's air car.
Goofy takes Mickey Mouse for a ride in his new free range air car. Published by Walt Disney on Halloween 1937.
Honda air engine.
This air engine was designed and built by engineer Paul Trentham (right) who helped with Terry Miller's project. The engine was later given to the University of Washington for their cryogenic (liquid nitrogen) car. I owned it long enough to take pictures, then gave it away. A simple conversion of a motorcycle engine using a rotary valve.
My other website.
The fine gentleman pictured to the right was and is an award-winning designer of racing motorcycles. He came to my house dressed all in black (1981) and told me the government would NEVER let me build or sell air cars. He's still making motorcycle parts, and I'm still thinking about building air cars (2013). Just google "Mr. Spooky" "Air cars" "compressed air" "people love air cars."
