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		memco on June 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving ... Interesting to see the development over the past few years and how theory is comparing to practice. One of the theorized benefits from the MIT video was quieter drones. This article says the ionic propulsion demoed is about 85db which sounds like it’s just as loud as current drones.

bentcorner on June 30, 2022 [–]

From that page here's a video of their ionic drone: https://youtu.be/iihprC5Huf4

Interesting that it sounds pretty much like a regular drone.

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