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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MIT EAD Airframe Version 2 (redirect from Ion wind plane)
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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Vehicle (redirect from Self propelled vehicle)
boats, underwater vehicles), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicles, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, aerostats), and spacecraft. Ground...
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Atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion (redirect from Air-breathing ion thruster)
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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Jet engine (redirect from Aircraft jet engine)
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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K9 Thunder (redirect from K-9 155mm self-propelled howitzer)
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 (section Aircraft designs)
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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Electric vehicle (section Lithium-ion battery)
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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Urban air mobility (section Aircraft)
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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Nuclear propulsion (section Aircraft and missiles)
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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Hypersonic flight (redirect from Hypersonic aircraft)
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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Magnetohydrodynamic drive (section Aircraft propulsion)
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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Lockheed C-130 Hercules (redirect from Hercules aircraft)
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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