The new ion drive makes aircraft operate without moving parts.

Ion drive is making it possible to create an aircraft that flies without moving parts. In this kind of model, the ion system can get energy from the small turbogenerators. Or it can deliver from Earth by using the maser rays.

There are many models of what this kind of airplane can look like. The film above this text introduces the MIT solution. There is a very interesting similarity between this concept and Wright-brothers Flyer I from Kitty Hawk that flew the first motorized flight in 1900.

The thrust of that kind of ion engine that is introduced in the film is not very big. But if the system is equipped with internal turbines, it can be a powerful tool. The fact is that the regular jet turbine can also equip with an ion assistant. That means that the air will ionize at the front of the engine.

And then it will pull backward past the combustion chamber. Also, the ion system can use to accelerate the air at the start of the ramjet or scramjet engine. The engine will ionize air at the front of the engine and then the magnets will pull ionized air backward. That increases the temperature and speed of the airflow to the level that the engine can start.

But there is the possibility that the normal bi- or triplane could also use an ion engine. Or the ion engine can also install in supersonic aircraft. In bi-or triplanes, the front line of the wings can ionize the air. And then the magnetic tracks will pull those ions backward. In the super- and hypersonic aircraft at the front of the aircraft is the stick that ionizes the air.

And then, the ion system will simply pull those ions over the wings. The ion systems can also make it possible to create wingless aircraft. In those models, the small flaps connected to the body. And the purpose of the system is to create overpressure to the wanted side of the aircraft. When the flap is turning outside it will increase the pressure at its side. The ions would pull over the body. And that thing is making the craft slide through the air.

There is also introduced that the regular propeller aircraft can equip with an ion drive. The propeller of the propeller-aircraft like the P-51 Mustang can use also as an ionizer that ionizes the air. Then the magnetic tracks will pull the ions backward and that thing turns the P-51 into a silver bullet that travels through the skies.

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