© Provided by AFPRelaxNews US physicists unveiled the future of flight on Wednesday —
the world's first solid-state aeroplane powered by supercharged air molecules.
The blue glowing jets of science fiction
spacecraft came a step closer to reality on Wednesday as US physicists unveiled
the world's first solid-state aeroplane powered in flight by supercharged air
molecules.
More
than a century on from the Wright brothers' first artificial flight, scientists
hailed the "historic" test of the new technology, which could
eventually slash greenhouse-gas emissions from aviation.
Ever
since Orville and Wilbur Wright's momentous glide in the winter of 1903,
aircraft have been driven by propellers or jets that must burn fuel to create
the thrust and lift needed for sustained flight.
A
team of experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to
unlock a process known as electroaerodynamics, previously never seen as a
plausible way to power an aircraft.
They
were able to fly the new plane, with a wingspan of five metres (16 feet), a
distance of 55 metres at a speed of 4.8 metres-per-second.
That's
hardly supersonic, but the implications of this unprecedented mode of flight
could be stratospheric….more
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