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I have read some articles on plasma aerodynamics, and the theory is sound - it has been successfully demonstrated and performed extremely well IIRC but never got beyond that, in much the same way that laminar flow wings were tested in the X-Plane series back in the '50s and '60's but never got beyond the experimental stage because the technology was too maintenance intensive for the day.
you might be surprised at just how far along the air force got back then - if even half the things they tested were allowed to flourish we would have a manned mars outpost by now.
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I take offense to the saying 'it isnt rocket science' to describe the relative difficulty of a given endeavour. Rocket Science is NOT hard... just EXPENSIVE 
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