How MIT e-plane works

Earlier this week, engineers at MIT flew a plane by what they have dubbed ‘solid-state flight’. Instead of propellers or some form of jet engine, the scheme uses high voltage to accelerate ions in the air, and these, in-turn, accelerate molecules in the air. In this case, there are multiple accelerators – two columns of ...

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