"For an air-plasma engine to power a large jumbo jet, it would require a large array of megawatt microwave sources, high-power turbine compressors, and an extremely high electric energy storage ...

Almost ten years after the last Boeing 747 rolled off the production line, China is drawing up plans to build its own ...

Plasma engines generate extreme heat ... systems capable of delivering continuous high power. “For a large jumbo jet, development could take another decade,” Tang estimated.

For decades, the Boeing 747 was the Queen of the Skies. But the glamorous double-decker jumbo jet that revolutionized air ...