Imagine an aircraft that is silent, invisible to infrared detectors, has zero emissions and can hover in an eerie manner that helicopters can’t. Now imagine it coming from technology currently used to ...

MIT researchers have run ionic thruster experiments and found they may be a far more efficient source of propulsion than conventional jet engines. In their experiments, they found that ionic wind ...

Following a round of experiments, MIT researchers have discovered ion thrusters to be much more efficient as a source of propulsion than conventional jet engines. Ion propulsion (Image via ...

Ever since the Wright Brothers flew the world’s first plane more than a century ago, aircraft have typically flown with the help of moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades and fans, and ...

Engineers have built and tested a drone that flies using electrically charged air molecules instead of motors, propellers, or any other mechanical moving parts. The technology, known as ...