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Yamato 1 on display in Kobe, Japan.The first working full-scale MHD ship. A magnetohydrodynamic drive or MHD accelerator is a method for propelling vehicles using only electric and magnetic fields with no moving parts, accelerating an electrically conductive propellant (liquid or gas) with magnetohydrodynamics.
Rotor ship E-Ship 1. A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion.The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors, sometimes known as rotor sails.
The Australian company StopRotor Technology Pty Ltd has developed a prototype Hybrid RotorWing (HRW) craft. [8] [9] The design uses high alpha airflow to provide a symmetrical airflow across all the rotor blades, requiring it to drop almost vertically during transition. [9] Inflight transition from fixed to rotary mode was demonstrated in ...
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 of Continental Airlines is an example of a trijet configuration. A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.
Pump-jets were once limited to high-speed pleasure craft (such as jet skis and jetboats) and other small vessels, but since 2000 the desire for high-speed vessels has increased [citation needed] and thus the pump-jet is gaining popularity on larger craft, military vessels and ferries.
The craft developed enough thrust to rise rapidly or to fly horizontally for several minutes. [10] [13] In November 2018 the first self-contained ion-propelled fixed-wing airplane, the MIT EAD Airframe Version 2 flew 60 meters. It was developed by a team of students led by Steven Barrett from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel.It was the world's first aircraft to fly using the thrust from a turbojet engine.
Lightcraft being propelled by laser. The Lightcraft is a space-or air-vehicle driven by beam-powered propulsion, the energy source powering the craft being external.It was conceptualized by aerospace engineering professor Leik Myrabo at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976, [1] who developed the concept further with working prototypes, [2] funded in the 1980s by the Strategic Defense ...