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Electric flight - no moving parts - robkelk - 11-29-2018
Quirks & Quarks: A new plane with no moving parts flies by electrifying the air
MIT's Electric Aircraft Initiative have managed to get electroaerodynamic propulsion working in the lab - 60 meters over 10 flights, with an average altitude of 0.47 meters, with no propellers or jet engines or other moving parts. There's a video of how it works on the web page, just above the link to the paper published in Nature.
EDIT: Oh, it's a YouTube vid. Here you go:
It's barely at the Kitty Hawk stage right now, if that, but it flies.
And, no doubt, the same principle is used by all those flying electromasters in superhero fiction...
