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MIT Creates Plane w/ No Moving Parts - Drashner1 - 11-27-2018
See HERE.
RE: MIT Creates Plane w/ No Moving Parts - stevebowers - 11-27-2018
A very elegant plane indeed.
Here's an old Popular Mechanics illustration of an ion aircraft that never made it off the ground. Not quite as lightweight or airworthy.
RE: MIT Creates Plane w/ No Moving Parts - Cray - 11-27-2018
It's an old technology. MIT's breakthrough was independent operation, which might give new life to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft