- Florida’s “silent” flying dish-rack, powered by ionic propulsion, is on track for commercial rollout in 2024.
- It’s not new; ionic propulsion has been used in space, and as we pointed out when we first saw the Silent Ventus drone project, for a few very small-scale terrestrial projects as well, one of which was used to levitate Orville the mouse in 2003.
- Still, it’s undeniably cool to see these things flying on electric wind alone, and for all the uncertainties and issues we’ve got, it sure does seem that these guys have built an ion-drive drone prototype capable of flying outdoors and well above the tree-line.
Undefined claims 4.5-min flight for its “silent” ion-propulsion drone
