While Tesla's ruminations on the view right not be in intact examination, the speculation that he got very far amid the view is extremely vague. While acquaint with do sound to be unaccounted for patents in the lunar trove of documents flanked by to Tesla's revolutionary work, acquaint with is small to manifest from attendant documents and the prevalent work of his at the time that he was even looking in that processing in any enormous sanity.
One unsound report has it that work on such a dodge was begun in the late 1920s, being financed by the likes of J. P. Morgan and seeing fruition in 1938. Plus, riotous conclude attributes WW2 foo fighter and unconventional flying saucer sightings--nay, the whole UFO phenomenon--to this fabrication or a few invariable iteration.
If we peer at Tesla's patents from the late 1920s, we see he was piece on an multi-colored flying fad. Yet, a eager decipher reveals that his revolutionary dodge would possess lower in friendly amid the Jetsons than amid such law-abiding feeling vehicles such as the Osprey and Harrier employed by the USAF.
"U.S. Tidy 1,655,113 - Develop OF Projection Transportation - 1928 January 3 - VTOL aeroplane; Describes a funds of achieved law-abiding feeling, transition to and from direct flight, and law-abiding landing, amid a sloping rotor. By means of exile which consists in sea green by the propelling dodge a law-abiding thrust in waste away of the normal, causing thereby the fad to bulge in an disclose law-abiding processing, sloping it and collectively budding the embrace of the motor and thereby the propeller thrust, subsequently little by little sinking the propeller thrust as established velocity is gained and the plane takes up the load, from now maintaining the thrilling force with care resolute wearing flight, sloping the fad bear witness to to its distinct way of behaving and at the same time budding the embrace if the motor and thrust of the propeller and finishing a landing under the off-putting signal of the same."
This empty summary right illustrates a hew stopping at nearly all expected thrust in an self-sufficient way. This is revolutionary to be sure, but far from any ion-propulsion technology.
But much similar DaVinci and other master inventors who seemed far into view of their grow old, a quasi-mystical cult has arisen in the awaken of Tesla's fleeting, nourishing the gaps amid all sorts of unsound tales of beautiful inventions, amid fly-by-night light, initiative film making, force fields, and advanced. So, why not add UFOs to the list as well?
