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MIT researchers create plane that flies without any moving parts
The Verge ^ | 22 N0v 2018 | Jon Porter

Posted on 11/22/2018 10:42:16 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

Say hello to electroaerodynamic propulsion

The feat was achieved using electroaerodynamic propulsion, which uses a pair of electrodes to push around ions and create ionic wind. The phenomenon has been known about since the 1960s (in fact, Apple even considered using it to cool its laptops back in 2012), but this is the first time it’s been used to propel a plane.

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aviation; batteries; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; icarus; ionicwind; massachusetts; mit; spacex
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Leaving on a Electroaerodynamic Plane

All my bags are packed

I'm ready to go

I'm standin' here outside your door

I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

But the dawn is breakin'

It's early morn

The taxi's waitin ' He's blowin' his horn

Already I'm so lonesome

I could die

1 posted on 11/22/2018 10:42:16 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Ironically the original was written by John Denver.


2 posted on 11/22/2018 10:46:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

As with all so called neat inventions scaling up is the challenge and usually impossible


3 posted on 11/22/2018 10:47:58 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Get me on flight number 505 ...


4 posted on 11/22/2018 10:48:26 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: dfwgator

John Denver, the former pilot with a thick logbook?


5 posted on 11/22/2018 10:50:13 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I thought someone was going to post a picture of a paper airplane.
6 posted on 11/22/2018 10:53:46 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

...and a full auxiliary tank.


7 posted on 11/22/2018 10:56:15 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DUMBGRUNT

aileron, elevator, rudder ...


8 posted on 11/22/2018 10:56:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Just thinking about the headline as I haven’t read the article yet.....reflecting on the ten cent balsa wood planes of yore (wonder how much they’d cost today?). They flew with no moving parts (unless one thinks of the horizontal stabilizers, and, or wings flying off, spinning to the ground when the assembled toy plane was tossed).

They flew, but they also crashed as parts flew off of them most of the time unless one took the step to glue them.

OK. Time to read the article.


9 posted on 11/22/2018 10:59:58 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Nifster

I could see this for uses in quiet or small spaces cooling. Laptops, servers and other cramped electronics come to mind.

My home computer has a CPU fan that recently died. PC still works but I have to be careful regarding the temp. I would imagine that such a cooling would be able to last longer.


10 posted on 11/22/2018 11:02:01 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: DUMBGRUNT

For one, the battery required to supply the necessary 40,000 volts the propulsion system requires would be massive, creating huge weight challenges that the design would need to overcome.

and just exactly WHY does it need to be battery powered?
a gas turbine as to make electricity would work jut as well


11 posted on 11/22/2018 11:03:17 AM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This is great! Now if we stretch a giant bungee cord from NYC to Boston a passenger version might have enough energy to take off. I think I need a grant...


12 posted on 11/22/2018 11:03:57 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

13 posted on 11/22/2018 11:04:39 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Commercial Photography
14 posted on 11/22/2018 11:05:03 AM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: DUMBGRUNT

15 posted on 11/22/2018 11:05:27 AM PST by zeebee
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To: Chode
For one, the battery required to supply the necessary 40,000 volts...

It is the amp side of the equation that fattens it up. Like a hungry multitude at Thanksgiving.

16 posted on 11/22/2018 11:07:52 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: dfwgator

That’s not funny. But this is;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXaOUTKa0wU


17 posted on 11/22/2018 11:10:32 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: gnarledmaw

a giant bungee cord from NYC to Boston ...

Maybe update that to a steam catapult, I think I saw a slightly used one from France up on ebay.

Or go whole hog, Electromagnetic.


18 posted on 11/22/2018 11:11:27 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Nifster

If necessity is the mother of invention....why are so many unnecessary things invented?


19 posted on 11/22/2018 11:13:58 AM PST by spokeshave2 (The Paradigm has shifted...the New World Order is Trumpian.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I remember reading about this effect in Popular Science in — probably — 1964 or '65.

They had an article about how you could make a flyer from tin foil and balsa wood and sewing needles, and power it with the output of a TV flyback transformer.

Perhaps MIT didn't have that issue in the library.

20 posted on 11/22/2018 11:20:11 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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