Given a small Helion-type fusion reactor, crazy aircraft will be possible
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> Electric AFC techniques use arrays of electrodes to discharge aerodynamic or electrical pulses to locally alter airflow. Effectors called synthetic jets – millimeter-wide openings in the aircraft surface that open into centimeter-wide cavities with diaphragms – rely on rapid voltage pulses to make diaphragms oscillate inward or outward, creating airflow sucking or blowing effects, much like a human lung.
> Electrically powered plasma actuators discharge pulses of electricity into the air through electrodes. The heat from the electricity turns the air into plasma, thermally altering flow vectors. All of these techniques have been researched through decades of AFC experiments in laboratories, wind tunnels and small-scale aircraft.
[1] https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/features/is-ac...