North Carolina industrialist who funded and equipped a private laboratory in Winston-Salem in the late 1950s where Townsend Brown continued his high-voltage work after the aerospace companies stopped talking about it.
Why the laboratory matters
The Bahnson Laboratory is the physical bridge between the 1956 Antigravity Press Window and the years afterwards, when the subject had left the open literature. Bahnson filmed a good deal of the work, and the films survive; they are among the few moving images of Biefeld-Brown Effect experiments being run by the people who claimed the effect.
The death, and what is made of it
Bahnson was killed when his aircraft struck a power line in 1964. In Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion the death appears in the sequence of closures at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s that Paul LaViolette reads as classification rather than collapse. It should be said plainly that a fatal light-aircraft accident in that period is an ordinary event and that no evidence connects it to the research; the node records the reading and its weakness together.
Connections
Townsend Brown · Biefeld-Brown Effect · Electrogravitics · 1956 Antigravity Press Window · Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion · Paul LaViolette · Project Winterhaven