Varialift in Discussion

News about the Varialift Concept reach us from the Airshipworld Yahoogroup. This week a discussion about the validity of Mr Alan Handleys claims on his Varilift Website started. His filed patent for the Varialift Technology was also mentioned, and the interested reader can get the PDF from pat2pdf. In this dicussion it was doubted that he was actually able to build it and was rather going to run with the investment money. What do you think ? Does the patent sound valid, is Mr Handley trustworthy? Should we doubt innovators and mistrust them, or should we rather try to build trust and thus avoid doubt? We are one industry and everyone of us tries his her best to bring airships back to the mainstream and we can only reach this goal if we work together worldwide.