Electric turbojet propulsion.
No fuel. Ambient air only.
Pulsionic is developing a jet engine that replaces fuel combustion with electrically driven plasma heating of ambient air — no kerosene, no additive, no catalyst.
Electricity instead of fuel.
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Ambient air in
The engine draws in atmospheric air, like any jet engine.
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Electric plasma heating
Electricity, not fuel, heats the airflow. Plasma heating replaces combustion.
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Thrust
The heated air expands and leaves the engine at high speed, producing thrust.
Stable plasma ignition in ambient air, at laboratory scale.
On April 17, 2026, Pulsionic sustained a stable plasma discharge inside a laboratory-scale cavity, operating on ambient air alone — without any additive, noble gas, or chemical catalyst.
Technical details are deliberately not published at this stage.
A propulsion architecture compatible with post-fossil aviation.
Zero fuel.
No kerosene, no hydrogen, no sustainable aviation fuel to source, certify, and transport. The working fluid is the atmosphere itself.
Zero additive.
Pure ambient air — no noble gas feed, no chemical catalyst, no external reactant. No industrial supply chain to build.
Fully electric.
Powered entirely by electricity — from batteries, fuel cells or any future electrical source, in step with the grid's decarbonization.
Unmanned aircraft first.
Small unmanned aircraft first — the shortest path from bench to flight — then larger platforms. Civil and dual-use applications.
Technology licensing and propulsion module supply to engine and aircraft manufacturers. Pulsionic does not intend to build airframes.
Each step gated by measured results.
Stable plasma ignition in ambient air
Laboratory-scale cavity. Ambient air only, no additive.
Quantified heating efficiency
Energy transferred from the plasma to the airflow, measured on an instrumented bench and reported with its uncertainty.
Static thrust demonstration
Integration into a small turbojet. First thrust measurement under controlled conditions.
Airborne demonstrator
Flight-representative integration, with energy on board.
Each step begins once the previous one is measured and documented. Last updated: November 2026.
Thomas Gheffar, founder.
More than twenty years in information technology, as a program director for cloud, data and AI. Thomas started Pulsionic in 2026 with a hardware-first, empirical approach: build, measure, iterate — and publish only what has been measured.
Pulsionic welcomes exchanges with plasma physics and propulsion laboratories.