Hi guys ,i just come across this exiting news Subrata Roy, an Indian origin aerospace engineer from the University of Florida, recently submitted a patent application for an aircraft that just happens to come in the shape of a flying saucer. Dubbed a “winged electromagnetic air vehicle,” or WEAV, the battery-powered prototype is designed at less than 6 in. across. Even so, Roy insists that the mini sci-fi mobile could be built full-scale for missions like atmospheric surveillance—and that’s got NASA and the Air Force interested.
Powered by magnetohydrodynamics (a bulky title for the way energy generated as a current passes through a conducting fluid), WEAV would be able to lift off vertically and hover—”a saucer and a helicopter in one embodiment,” as Roy puts it. We’ve seen prototypes of choppers with vertical landing capabilities and even length-morphing rotors, but Roy is talking about virtually part-less flight: Plasma-forming electrodes would serve as a conducting fluid, causing the surrounding air to be pushed around the craft, propelling it through the sky.
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There seems to be a lot of information on this guy out there and I have seen him referred to as the Howard Hughes of India, a successful business man with a Phd.
One company at least, it maybe Boeing I am not sure, has dabbled with plasma in connection with flight controls they were referred to as plasma actuators and the craft did not have any other moving control surfaces.
A patent is one thing but I would want to see at least a technology demonstrator to be up and running with this thing, I hope at least this much could materialize, only time will tell I guess.
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