Aircraft

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Aloha AF:

I met a retired airman who was once stationed at Edwards AB. He said he saw a small aircraft, silent without an engine or a propeller, take off and fly like any other airplane.


My guess: they used static electricity in the form of charged plate capacitors with glass as the insulator/dielectric as a sort of engine and controlled it using electromagnetism as thrust.


What you say?

I've seen some demonstration of an electrically moved model plane.

From memory the thrust level/value to energy put in is the 'Bad'/'Down side'.

You just get bettet 'Bounce per ounce' from hydrocarbons oxidized in a cylinder or turbine.

Cheers.