Yes, Kent, Tesla was talking about kicking up the voltages. But understand that Tesla found it wasn't not necessary to include the power generation onboard, he was going to broadcast the power to the craft.

The whole trick here (besides control issues) is to find a dielectric material that is light weight enough that can withstand hundreds of thousands of volts per mil, and be of such high quality control manufacturing that dielectric purity is assured.

I keep trying to visualize to the point of calculating just how the form of the alledged Hannebu (TTB-AMV) craft would use three separate capacitor plates, and the coatings on the 35 meter diameter plates being of such high dielectric constant that even the capacitance added by the air gaps would add very little to the over all charge capacity.

JNLabs (Jean Lousie Naudin's Labs) had or has a work up on the basic shape of the Hannebu II. However JNLabs has not publically shown much further work on the electro dynamic properties of the various configurations of capacitors and the possiblity of using a gradient of dielectric constant across the cap to tailor the field more effectively.

The link to Padrak is a good one, as well as the one to JNLabs, and of course the classic is TTB's own memorial site. Need to look to see if it is still online.