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MIT Creates Plane w/ No Moving Parts
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11-27-2018, 11:31 AM
See HERE.
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11-27-2018, 12:53 PM
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.

   
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11-27-2018, 09:22 PM
It's an old technology. MIT's breakthrough was independent operation, which might give new life to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft
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