A team of MIT engineers has flown what was long thought impossible – a heavier than air craft that needs no moving parts for achieving powered lift. The 5-lb (2.3-kg) prototype with a 16-ft (5-m) ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A nearly silent, drone-sized aircraft has shown it can fly, thanks to a scientist who was inspired by watching "Star Trek" as a child. With neither propellers nor jets, the airplane ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said they have successfully flown the first “solid state” airplane that has no moving parts and does not rely on fossil fuels to fly. The ...

MIT engineers have created the first aircraft that is capable of flying despite not having any moving parts. Rather than using fossil fuels, the new aircraft is powered by ionic wind, according to the ...

An experimental electric plane with no moving parts has been successfully designed and flown by scientists in the US. Instead of propellers or turbines, the five-metre wide craft used electricity to ...

Most drones today are noisy: The whine of motors and the hum of propellers produces an unavoidable din that instantly telegraphs their presence. By contrast, the small plane that flew across an indoor ...

Dispensing with propellers and turbines, the first flights of an aircraft with solid-state propulsion have been conducted by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The ...