"the Scout must be recharged at this platform.”
I glanced back and saw that the man on the platform had already slipped the clamp attached to the cable over the flange of the Scout so that it contacted both the flange and the rail beneath.
I have no idea how this recharging operation was performed; to me the clamp looked much like a machinist’s large clamp used on Earth. Nor could I see to what the other end of the cable was connected. Perhaps contact between clamp and rail was necessary to complete the circuit or for all I know, it may even have fitted into an unseen connection directly below the rim of the Scout. I did not wish to cause further delay by asking.
Although not answering the question in my mind, Firkon did volunteer, “These smaller craft are incapable of generating their own power to any great extent and make only relatively short trips from their carriers before returning for recharge. They are used for a kind of shuttle service between the large ships and any point of contact or observation, and are always dependent on full recharging from the power plant of the Mothership.”"
https://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/02/11/george-adamski-inside-a-venusian-scout-ship/
"The short-range machine can also have electricity beamed to it from a generating plant on a long-range aircraft / spacecraft or on the ground."
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/science-futures/nikola-tesla-s-flying-saucer-electromagnetic-field-lift-experiments/
https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/41/n05/Venusian_Scout_Ship_(Glenn_Passmore).png
"Tesla’s unusual flying saucer was powered by “free energy”! Since the aircraft did not include a power source of its own, it needed to be energized"
https://www.ancient-code.com/teslas-ufo-what-you-should-know-about-teslas-incredible-flying-saucer/?amp=1
