Engineers fly first-ever plane with
no moving parts
Summary:
generates enough thrust
by the combustion of fossil
Engineers have built and
to propel the plane over a
fuels or by battery packs that
flown the first-ever plane
sustained, steady flight.
produce a persistent, whining
with no moving parts.
Since the first airplane took
buzz.
Instead of propellers or
flight over 100 years ago,
Now MIT engineers have built
turbines, the light aircraft is
virtually every aircraft in the
and flown the first-ever plane
powered by an 'ionic wind'
sky has flown with the help
with no moving parts. Instead
-- a silent but mighty flow
of moving parts such as
of propellers or turbines, the
of ions that is produced
propellers, turbine blades,
light aircraft is powered by
aboard the plane, and that
and fans, which are powered
an "ionic wind" -- a silent but
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