[DUMBGRUNT]

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

[dfwgator]

Ironically the original was written by John Denver.

[Nifster]

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

[bankwalker]

Get me on flight number 505 ...

[Nateman]

I thought someone was going to post a picture of a paper airplane.

[ClearCase_guy]

aileron, elevator, rudder ...

[rockinqsranch]

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.

[Chode]

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

[gnarledmaw]

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...

[bgill]

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[zeebee]

[Steely Tom]

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.

[dhs12345]

Sniff sniff, smell the ozone?

And does it “pollute?”

[FrankR]

Does this mean I can have a “hover conversion” kit put on my DeLorean?

[gaijin]

more detailed, 5 min video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB6qu5dcCw

[Robert DeLong]

John Denver - Leaving On A Jet Plane

Peter, Paul & Mary - Leaving On A Jet Plane

[TChad]

Needs an amps/payload graph, and more details on the battery.

[Revolutionary]

Bungee launch. Probably a 1% net propulsion measured.

[YogicCowboy]

Call Tesla. They can make a flying car.

[Paal Gulli]

"MIT researchers create plane that flies without any moving parts"

So this airplane flies without moving? That must be some trick.