The first ever “solid state” plane, with no moving parts in its propulsion system, has successfully flown for a distance of 60 metres, proving that heavier-than-air flight is possible without jets or propellers.
The flight represents a breakthrough in “ionic wind” technology, which uses a powerful electric field to generate charged nitrogen ions, which are then expelled from the back of the aircraft, generating thrust.
Potential applications in the short term include unmanned drones, where silent flight may be beneficial, and high-altitude solar-powered flight, where the lack of moving parts could allow such a plane to soar for years on end, acting as a pseudo-satellite.
In the prototype plane, wires at the leading edge of the wing have 600 watts of electrical power pumped through them at 40,000 volts. This is enough to induce “electron cascades”, ultimately charging air molecules near the wire. Those charged molecules then flow along the electrical field towards a second wire at the back of the wing, bumping into neutral air molecules on the way, and imparting energy to them. Those neutral air molecules then stream out of the back of the plane, providing thrust.
The end result is a propulsion system that is entirely electrically powered, almost silent, and with a thrust-to-power ratio comparable to that achieved by conventional systems such as jet engines.
Prof Guy Gratton, an aerospace engineer and visiting professor at Cranfield University, said: “It’s clearly very early days: but the team at MIT have done something we never previously knew was possible in using accelerated ionised gas to propel an aircraft. Aeronautical engineers around the world are already trying hard to find ways to use electric propulsion, and this technology will offer something else that in the future may allow manned and unmanned aircraft to be more efficient, and non-polluting.
Fascinating, someday even engines will be "solid state"
Xavier Turner
but how do I build the DC power supply
Dominic Gomez
WOW, so exiting…I cannot wait until they corrupt it into military use to slaughter civilians and destroy nature. Science is so cool and productive these days…
Probably the first farming equipment made was also instantly used as improvised weaponry. I don't understand you faggots way of thinking. You are here alive today because one of your ancestors at some point bashed the head in of someone else not the other way around. Warfare is part of human biology in it's most barest form, to say otherwise is a one way street to extinction you soy filled bitch.
This is how the b2 bomber works, it's edges are electrified. All "advanced" aircraft have been capable of infinite flight, multiple Mach xxxx speeds, and incredibly maneuverable because there is no air around them when the field is running
they've had solar powered (and other types of) unmanned surveillance aircraft that fly autonomously nonstop, around the clock, for years already…..
And I'm not just talking about 'drones', even though technically speaking, any pilotless aircraft would be considered a drone
Chase Sullivan
It looks almost as intimidating as a box of matches made out of a screen door
Adam Nelson
Sounds great…….
Now if they could just overcome the 16 ounce cargo weight limit to achieve flight
Nicholas Wright
You're correct……
But you still managed to get it backwards
Almost all technology (like the microwave oven, for example) is first developed for the scientific advancement, but then is AUTOMATICALLY taken by the military to gauge any and all weaponry applications.
Usually, only after the military has thoroughly vetted it, does it get handed out to the consumer
Jaxon Torres
This amazing balsa wood and fishing line contraption was developed by MIT student Orville Wrong.
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE SOMETHING THAT YOU DIDNT SOURCE FROM THE TURDWATER
It took 40,000 volts to make something that weighs less than a used condom fly 60 meters?
Henry Gutierrez
MIT needs to invent a stockboy position at Walmart for the 'genius' that wasted time and money on this stupid idea
Samuel Long
Since your thread is so yawn inducing, this would probably be a good time to remind you that THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE A 'WALL' BUILT, and that the Dept of Defense has announced that they are going to immediately begin pulling troops from the border.
Also, this would be a nice time to rub something else in your face:
The 'caravan invasion' is going to be allowed to enter our border…
Oh, yeah… I almost forgot….
Trump's administration never mentioned that when Trump requested that the troops be allowed to use Force to protect the border, THE PENTAGON TOLD HIM TO FUCK OFF !!!
the Pentagon said unequivocally NO, that our constitution does not allow our troops to be used as 'law enforcement'
In other words, for Christmas, you're going to get a nifty gift: THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL HISPANICS CROSSING THE BORDER, UNFETTERED….
because trump is a powerless fool
Happy Holidays, douchebag
Kevin Ortiz
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN……
right ?……………. hahahahahahahaha
Fuck This Plane Story
Tyler Hughes
Trump is a GEOPOLITICAL GENIUS
I honestly doubt he can even SPELL the word 'wall'
Aaron Miller
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James Nelson
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Gabriel Smith
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Nathaniel Diaz
LET THIS SINK IN……
THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE A 'WALL'
Jaxson Johnson
He's ILLITERATE, which is an important quality for a president
Adrian Foster
buy a battery
Daniel Evans
Fuck off shill. Everything always ends up being misused in this crazy world. You sicken me to try to shut up someone who tells the truth.
Julian Powell
I love how all these shills showed up to bash this guy and try to intentionally misunderstand their point and scream "HIPPIE!"
I've had the unenviable luxury of witnessing the downward spiral of the education system and collective IQ of the human race for decades now….
That's why I admire YOU GUYS
BECAUSE YOU ARE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT compared to the average person…..
SO WHY DO ALL OF YOU ACT LIKE PARROTS, REPEATING THE EXACT SAME TRENDY CATCHPHRASES, OVER AND OVER AND OVER?
you all seem TERRIFIED that you won't 'fit in'
Eli Bennett
The general scientific community is just discovering this. Area 51 tech has built the B2 bomber using this yrs ago
This is how (((they))) got to our planet, only using a more advanced version
Josiah Baker
No. my cave ancestor was a peaceful zen type troglodyte.
When the agressor came with his club to the peaceful village, he stepped in my greatx20grandads defensive hole and was impaled on spikes,
Acts of agression will get you spiked, bitch, you come around my back door May I remember my true purpose, to forgive, to love, and to bless, in this and every moment.
May I be a clear conduit for blessings for myself and others
May I be blessed in this moment with Mindfulness and Gratitude
May the spaces I enter and leave be more blessed than when I found them
May I bless instead of judge others
May I bless myself whenever I begin to think a negative thought about myself
May I remember my purpose–to forgive, to love, and to bless
Nicholas Walker
we ARE 'them'
and they wrapped time and space around behind them, and 'brought us to them' instead of bringing themselves to us.
But yeah ……
We ARE them
Jordan Mitchell
i thought aggression had 1 g, since I'm unfamiliar with the word
Dominic Baker
Johnny and Wendy Neptune Wish You ALL Happy Holidays
Nathan Young
you diggressed like a niger
Nathaniel Torres
No, I am one of the (((others))) and We will supplant you
fuck off you body waste displaying piece of white trash
choke on a turkey bone and let a chile in africa get your supply of food
Gavin Scott
At least it's saffer than the new 5G agggggression
Eli Myers
LOL @ CHILE
nice work, Einstein
…….and we're vegetarians, bitch……
Jaxon Wood
Jailhouse sausages and well used roastie beef don't make you a vegetarian, Andy
Brody Hernandez
I seriously don't doubt you're one of the 'others'…….
Because the 'others' are the primates that WE genentically mutated with OUR DNA to create the human race
monkeyboy
Justin Lopez
Can ..can this be applied to cars and other things??????????
Bentley Murphy
t.tree fucker
Angel Flores
PROOF THAT YOURE AN AMATEUR:
you don't even realize that one of the first things they do in jail and prison is to 'grid' you and categorize your diet, mainly for religious purposes…..
LOTS OF US GOT A SPECIAL VEGETARIAN DIET, YOU IDIOT !!!
(and since they give you twice as much food with the vegetarian diets, the smarter carnivores would request veggie diets, just to get more food)
You wouldn't last 5 minutes
Adrian Gutierrez
It's obviously been applied to OP's neurosynaptic ganglia, because he almost appears capable of thought….
almost
Camden Baker
You are a primitive sack of shit and blood, dna creature.
(((We))) manufacture a new one of ourselves in the rare occurance that one of us is accidentally terminated.
If The consciousness of the accidentally terminated one has been backed up(always is),it is transferred into the new (((body)))
Cooper Anderson
Jailhouse sausages = cock You senile old cock sucker
Adrian Taylor
CONGRATULATIONS on the 'refusing to take the atypical antipsychotics you had prescribed' accomplishment……
Leo Price
u bean Andy Kaufmanned, andy
Jail house weenies and your ho's well used roastie beef
And dna You gonna have to do better, or it won't be fun Pwning yo no mor
Lucas Ramirez
AGAIN: because you're an amateur, the only things you know about jail or prison (or girls or life in general) is what you've gleaned while sitting in front of a monitor or a TV set
Evan White
AGAIN, AGAIN: no real life experience with women, or socializing, or real life….
Hence your vocabulary, which consists of nothing but predictable cliches, trendy terminologies, and parroted imageboard catchphrases
Speaking of which: how's that latest video game going?
I bet you're a 'military expert' now, huh?
Chase Gomez
Now I gotta go I've been eating mints with Isomalt, a sugar substitute, that cause diarreha, diahhhreha, the shits if you eat to many and I ate too many
I took a picture of an earlier dump and included it
Unlike you, I spoiled it,But since your a freak into bodily fluids, I'm sure you will open it
The most common of the opportunistic infections that cause diarrhea in patients with AIDS are CMV infection, cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis, and MAC infection. CMV infection is the most common opportunistic viral infection in the GI tract of HIV-infected patients and can cause problems from the mouth to the anus.
LOL talking about the mouth breathing wheelchair slug parasite blood-brain barrier punching bag that died recently??
Hahahaha !!!
That was some of my finest work… I would literally pay money right now if somebody could supply me with the two short webm videos I made of that piece of shit paperweight, wishing the people dancing behind him, and the other featuring two girls bouncing on a trampoline…..
Monty Python never were funny, and never will be funny… They were the most boring worthless stupid attempt at humor I've ever seen… The holy Grail was a piece of shit, and everything any of them have ever made since then was even worse…..
why is it that all British men are born genetically homosexual?
it doesn't matter if they're married to a woman and have children, because they're still homosexuals… They are disgustingly effeminate limp wristed lisping sissies…..
ALL OF THEM
I challenge you to name one masculine Brit, other than the queen..
(And I mean the real queen, not your kind of queen)
That's exactly what I'm talking about when I said you have never successfully accomplished ANY of your goals, no matter how small ?…..
Because that's stupid screenshot is absolutely true… Every single word of it is true… Exactly what about your stupid screenshot makes you think I claimed that particular illustration was one of the album covers?
Apples usually don't fall very far from the tree, as they say….
So I'm imagining your father was probably also a complete failure? Was he also an effeminate, spineless, neurotic, bitter imitation of a divorced woman, who could never get ANYTHING right?….
Where did it come from your mother's side?
David Wilson
Andy, just put your tail between your legs and get out.
Try another thread.
It's sad watching what this guy is doing to you.
I mean, you're an asshole, but this shouldn't happen to anyone, not even Trump
