Steven Barrett

Steven Barrett is the Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the director of the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment and leads the MIT Electric Aircraft Initiative.

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An Airplane With No Moving Parts and a Blue Ionic GlowInspired by sci-fi, researchers discover it’s possible to fly a heavier-than-air vehicle using ionic winds
Wed, 12/12/2018 - 12:03
Since their invention more than 100 years ago, airplanes have been moved through the air by the spinning surfaces of propellers or turbines. But watching science fiction movies like the Star Wars, Star Trek, and the Back to the Future series, I…