AAWSAP DIRD, MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications, November 2010

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Figure 5. Air-Breathing MHD Engine. An illustration of a conceptual high-speed air­
breathing MHD engine and (insert) a photograph of the operating proof-of-concept
experiment being investigated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
We note here that in its first-ever list of top 10 emerging aerospace
technologies, released in 2009, the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) included two plasma technologies: plasma actuators for
active flow control and plasma-based advanced space propulsion technologies.
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