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    wow powered plane with no moving parts takes flight

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    I thought about taking one of those Dyson fans and making some sort of hovercraft out of it. No moving parts except you had to plug it in. Converting to DC would introduce battery's which obviously would weigh it down, wish I'd have fiddled with it back then. But that ion plane is cool, don't know if you could ever convert enough fuel p***ively though.
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    This is both interesting and amazing. Pairing this technology with advances in batteries will be something to watch.

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    Seems a stretch for significant scaling up but who knows---in any event I get excited about every out of the box development
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