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Copyright Dr. Eng. Jan Pająk
Img.080 (G30) The location of SUB system lamps in the Magnocraft. The capital letters U, V, W, X are assigned to the lamps installed on the vehicle's flange. The small letters ui, vi, wi and xi label the four smaller versions of these lamps installed on the pilot's control panel.
The SUB system of lamps indicates the Magnocraft's mode of operation. This system is an advanced version of the navigation lights used in present aeroplanes. The colour pattern of the light flashed by each lamp reflects the state of the magnetic field produced by the group of side propulsors marked with the same letter with which this lamp is labelled (see also Img.076 (G26), whereas the dynamic state of colours from all lamps simulate the general state of the field produced by the whole vehicle.
The sequence of colour changes in these lights, characteristic for the magnetic whirl mode of the Magnocraft's operation, is illustrated in Table G3. (This particular table illustrates colour signals that would accompany the magnetic whirl from Img.76 (G26).) The table's rows show the subsequent colours that each lamp emits at a given moment of time to describe the operation of the propulsors labelled with a letter corresponding to that lamp. Observing only one lamp, it is evident that its colours change according to a sinusoidal curve that simulates the change of the magnetic field in a given group of propulsors. But observing only one colour (e.g. red), this table shows that with the elapse of time (i.e. after each quarter of the propulsors' period of pulsations) each colour moves to the next lamp. In this way the apparent motion of colours reflects the motion of the magnetic waves around the Magnocraft. Note that for the throbbing mode of operation, the colours of the lights would change in the same way in each lamp, whereas in the magnetic lens mode all the lamps would emit a yellow colour all the time.
