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I’ve been curious about using high heat combustion plus RF to create denser plasmas (ionized air) plus pulsed magnets to push the air. It seems impossible for e
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I’ve been curious about using high heat combustion plus RF to create denser plasmas (ionized air) plus pulsed magnets to push the air. It seems impossible for earthly flight, but maybe with lightweight super conductors.
I’ve also been curious about using very large-area weak ionizers for future zeppelins.
Plasma propulsion has been used for zeppelin flight at a small scale. Plasmas are also used for flow control on wings and propellers. There doesn’t seem to be much unclassified research in the area, though.
- dr_orpheus 4y agoNothing earthbound that I know of, but it sounds like you are describing something similar to the electric propulsion thrusters that PhaseFour makes: https://phasefour.io/rf-thruster/ https://phasefour.io/rf-thruster/