{"id":146788,"date":"2022-09-22T01:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/undefined-claims-4-5-min-flight-for-its-silent-ion-propulsion-drone"},"modified":"2022-09-22T01:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:03:22","slug":"undefined-claims-4-5-min-flight-for-its-silent-ion-propulsion-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/undefined-claims-4-5-min-flight-for-its-silent-ion-propulsion-drone","title":{"rendered":"Undefined claims 4.5-min flight for its \u201csilent\u201d ion-propulsion drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yM_ZcN3dleo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s \u201csilent\u201d flying dish-rack, powered by ionic propulsion, is on track for commercial rollout in 2024, according to Undefined Technologies, which has released new outdoor flight test video. We remain curious, but unconvinced it\u2019ll be viable.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSilent Ventus\u201d drone doesn\u2019t use propellers to fly. Instead, its entire broad structure creates two stacked grids of electrodes, designed to create high-voltage electric fields that can ionize the oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the air, freeing electrons to give them a positive charge, and then propelling these downward to create an \u201cionic wind\u201d that can produce thrust.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not new; ionic propulsion has been used in space, and as we pointed out when we <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/drones\/ion-propelled-drone-undefined-technologies\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">first saw the Silent Ventus drone project<\/a>, for a few very small-scale terrestrial projects as well, one of which was used to levitate Orville the mouse in 2003. Undefined says its \u201cAir Tantrum\u201d technology yields \u201chigher levels of thrust, up to 150% compared to current ion thruster technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s \u201csilent\u201d flying dish-rack, powered by ionic propulsion, is on track for commercial rollout in 2024, according to Undefined Technologies, which has released new outdoor flight test video. We remain curious, but unconvinced it\u2019ll be viable. The \u201cSilent Ventus\u201d drone doesn\u2019t use propellers to fly. Instead, its entire broad structure creates two stacked grids of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}