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'Sci-fi' plane with no moving parts flies successfully

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    Gyrfalcon
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    This is absolutely wild! I think this could be really interesting for space exploration as well, a reliable way to propel aircraft in non-oxygen atmospheres would be huge.

    This is absolutely wild! I think this could be really interesting for space exploration as well, a reliable way to propel aircraft in non-oxygen atmospheres would be huge.

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      spctrvl
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      Propellors still work perfectly fine without oxygen, but lacking so many moving parts (aka points of failure) definitely makes this pretty compelling.

      Propellors still work perfectly fine without oxygen, but lacking so many moving parts (aka points of failure) definitely makes this pretty compelling.

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      1. Gyrfalcon
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        Yeah that's along the lines I was thinking. I can only imagine the amount of dust trying to infiltrate something like a propeller on Mars. I'm also wondering if a refined version of this tech...

        Yeah that's along the lines I was thinking. I can only imagine the amount of dust trying to infiltrate something like a propeller on Mars. I'm also wondering if a refined version of this tech would be good for being light and small versus a conventional prop.