The Ionic Cat is Out of the Bag
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:22 pm
I posted links in some thread or another, to a video of the flight of an experimental, no moving parts, ion drive plane. The source was MIT, and their source? Pages from Townsend Brown's 1927 notebook.
And now we have the Silent Venus, a next generation "last mile" drone expected to be production ready next year.
https://www.undefinedtechnologies.com/p ... -rendering
And now we have the Silent Venus, a next generation "last mile" drone expected to be production ready next year.
https://www.undefinedtechnologies.com/p ... -rendering
The ionic cat is out of the bag and his name is Townsend.Since Thomas Townsend Brown discovered propulsion generated by asymmetrical electrodes in 1921 there had not been a significant break-thru that allow generation ion propulsion to levels that made it possible to develop VTOL crafts in atmospheric conditions. Our all-electric drone powered by ion propulsion, with minimum noise signature and zero carbon emissions, uses innovative physics principles to generate noise levels below 55 dB.