# tech: terrestrial UFOs around us, by electroaerodynamics (ionic wind)

<< MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an “ionic wind” - a silent but mighty flow of ions that is produced aboard the plane, and that generates enough thrust to propel the plane over a sustained, steady flight. >>

Jennifer Chu. MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts.
The silent, lightweight aircraft doesn’t depend on fossil fuels or batteries. MIT News Office. Nov 21, 2018.

http://news.mit.edu/2018/first-ionic-wind-plane-no-moving-parts-1121

Haofeng Xu, Yiou He, et al.  Flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion.  Nature. volume 563, pages 532–535 (2018).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0707-9