This project replicates the foundational Biefeld-Brown effect at the entry level, documents the results honestly, and asks the one question that has never been answered: why does a null result program go silent instead of publishing? The atmospheric effect is real and is ion wind. The mainstream scientific consensus is well supported by Talley 1988 and Tajmar 2004 and this project accepts it. The question is not whether the lifter hovers. It does. The question is what the institutional record was actually working on and why it stopped.