An ion-propelled aircraft or ionocraft is an aircraft that uses electrohydrodynamics (EHD) to provide lift or thrust in the air without requiring combustion or moving parts. Current designs do not produce sufficient thrust for crewed flight or useful loads.

2018年11月21日 · Now MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an “ionic wind” — a silent but mighty flow of ions that is produced aboard the plane, and that generates enough thrust to propel the plane over a sustained, steady flight.

Our invention is the first solely ion propelled aircraft in history, that can both take off, and fly with its power supply onboard. See US patent numbers 10,119,527 and 11,161,631 (links provided below). The patents specifically cover ion propelled flying machines that carry their power supplies, as of 08/07/2014.

2018年4月28日 · Ionocraft generates thrust by ionizing the air with a high voltage and propelling ionized air molecules downward. The thrust mechanism consists of a pair of conductors, one with a sharp or pointed edge and the other without, which in …

2013年4月8日 · Severskey used EHD to propel what he called an “ionocraft,” which are still built by students and hobbyists to this day. It works by using an negative anode to charge air particles. These charged...

The aircraft is an example of an ionocraft, which is powered by an ionic wind generated through controlled electrical discharge. The fuselage contains a stack of 54 lithium-polymer batteries.

The magic carpet, called the Ionocraft, flies on pure electricity. It depends specifically on the fundamental principle of electricity that electric current always flows from negative to positive, and it uses two basic pieces of equipment to take advantage of this principle --- tall metal spikes that are installed above an open wire-mesh grid.

In this work, we present an electrohydrody-namic thrust powered centimeter-scale flying robot (Fig. 1) that is capable of flight while carrying and streaming data from a commercial 9-axis IMU.

An ion-propelled aircraft or ionocraft is an aircraft that uses electrohydrodynamics (EHD) to provide lift or thrust in the air without requiring combustion or moving parts. Current designs do not produce sufficient thrust for manned flight or useful loads.

2014年7月10日 · What Is An Ionocraft And How Dangerous Is It To Make One? You may have heard about “lifters” or “ionocrafts,” in science fiction stories discussing fake worlds, or on message boards discussing...