Flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 563; no. 7732; pp. 532 - 535
• Main Authors: Xu, Haofeng, He, Yiou, Strobel, Kieran L, Gilmore, Christopher K, Kelley, Sean P, Hennick, Cooper C, Sebastian, Thomas, Woolston, Mark R, Perreault, David J, Barrett, Steven R H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Aircraft; Aircraft aerodynamics; Aircraft design; Airplanes; Batteries; Cameras; Combustion; Design optimization; Electric converters; Electric fields; Electric power systems; Electric propulsion; Electrodes; Electrohydrodynamics; Emissions; Flight; Fluids; Fossil fuels; Fuel combustion; High voltages; Ion engines; Power converters; Propellers; Propulsion systems; Solid state; Thrust; Turbines

Since the first aeroplane flight more than 100 years ago, aeroplanes have been propelled using moving surfaces such as propellers and turbines. Most have been powered by fossil-fuel combustion. Electroaerodynamics, in which electrical forces accelerate ions in a fluid , has been proposed as an alter...