Designing A Next-Gen Ionic Thruster! (For Flight)

If jet turbines are the evolution of a propeller, what is the evolution of ionic thrust? In my attempt to answer that - I built a next-gen ionic thruster, and only shocked myself about a dozen times in the process. Thank you to Steven Barret at MIT for providing his airplane footage, and to Keysight for supporting this video.
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