• An ion-propelled aircraft or ionocraft is an aircraft that uses electrohydrodynamics (EHD) to provide lift or thrust in the air without requiring combustion...
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  • astronautics) and others. It is claimed to be the first ion-propelled airplane. Tethered ion-propelled aircraft without wings have existed since the 1960s. These...
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  • lifter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lifter may refer to: Ion-propelled aircraft, a device that can generate thrust using ionised air with no moving...
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  • Pilots Academy (IFPA) - Instrument meteorological conditions – Ion-propelled aircraft Jet Airliner – Jet blast deflector (JBD) – Jet engine – Jetliner...
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    interaction of antimatter Gravitational shielding Gravitational wave Ion-propelled aircraft Heim theory Magnetic levitation Nazi UFOs Optical levitation Reactionless...
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  • airship Prototypes Air travel with low fuel consumption Airlander 10 Ion-propelled aircraft Research, development, prototypes Better flying transportation,...
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  • car, Toyota Mirai. 2018 - First electroaerodynamic thrust winged Ion-propelled aircraft test flight of MIT EAD Airframe Version 2 using ionic wind. 2018...
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    boats, underwater vehicles), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicles, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, aerostats), and spacecraft. Ground...
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  • general principles as JAXA's Air Breathing Ion Engine (ABIE) or ESA's RAM-EP. Spaceflight portal Ion-propelled aircraft Propulsive fluid accumulator – A self-filling...
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    Gallagher on August 7, 2017. First electroaerodynamic thrust winged Ion-propelled aircraft test flight: MIT EAD Airframe Version 2 using ionic wind on November...
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  • ion-propelled aircraft with only one ground unit in their arsenal. The Mykonian Host Station in the original single-player campaign uses a single Ion...
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    first free flight with a model aircraft having no moving parts, the EAD Airframe Version 2. It is propelled by creating an ion wind using magnetohydrodynamics...
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    Propulsion (redirect from Propelling engine)
    device. Small objects, such as bullets, propelled at high speed are known as projectiles; larger objects propelled at high speed, often into ballistic flight...
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    The gridded ion thruster is a common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power...
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    power providing thrust through the propelling nozzle—this process is known as the Brayton thermodynamic cycle. Jet aircraft use such engines for long-distance...
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    North Korean equipment. The armed forces operated M107 self-propelled guns and K55 self-propelled howitzers. However, they had shorter firing ranges compared...
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  • Aarne Lakomaa (1914–2001) was a Finnish aircraft designer. Born in Finland, Lakomaa graduated from Helsinki Polytechnics. He fought as an Army Lieutenant...
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  • Electrostatic ion thruster, using high-voltage electrodes Ion thruster, using beams of ions accelerated electrically Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster...
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    nuclear power. Current methods of propelling a spacecraft with electricity include the arcjet rocket, the electrostatic ion thruster, the Hall-effect thruster...
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  • Institute of Technology) have developed an ion drive propulsion system with no moving parts. The 'engine' is propelled by ionic wind, also known as electro-aerodynamic...
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    A twin-boom aircraft has two longitudinal auxiliary booms. These may contain ancillary items such as fuel tanks and/or provide a supporting structure for...
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  • electrostatic force may be used to expel positive ions, or the Lorentz force may be used to expel negative ions and electrons as the propellant. Electrothermal...
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  • aircraft (VTOL), electrically propelled vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft (eVTOL), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These aircraft are characterized...
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    were also planned. These included a 122 or 150 mm self-propelled howitzer version, an anti-aircraft vehicle and a command vehicle armed with machine guns...
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    for engines to propel cars, planes, and boats. H. G. Wells picked up this idea in his 1914 fiction work The World Set Free. Many aircraft carriers and submarines...
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    Electra EL-2 Goldfinch (category STOL aircraft)
    for the NASA Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability. Electra.aero uses a hybrid powertrain as lithium-ion batteries pack not enough...
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    nitric oxide: N2 + O2 → 2NO, which then dissociates and recombines to form ions: N + O → NO+ + e−: 39  At standard sea-level condition for air, the mean...
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    main designs: Internal flow when the fluid is accelerated within and propelled back out of a nozzle of tubular or ring-shaped cross-section, the MHD...
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    C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using...
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  • vacuum conditions, the effect observed has often been attributed to the ion drift or ion wind effect instead of anti-gravity. Electrogravitics had its origins...
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