LightCraft Launch Oct 2000 - laserbeam powered propulsion

Asides from solar winds to power 'some' spacecraft, this technology would definitely prove useful for pushing craft around through zero gravity or perhaps moving payloads into place when building space architecture.
But I would doubt that this technology alone would be ideal for terrestrial takeoff.

whats happening with this technology now?

It's waiting for lasers to get more powerful, which is finally happening now.
Lightcrafttechnologies website has recently changed

Also here's some recently published articles (google them):

Wired - February 20, 2009: "Laser Powered Aircraft are the future of Flight. Maybe"

Nextbigfuture - July 30, 2009: "Laser Propulsion Tests in Brazil using Gigawatt Pulsed Lasers"

Centauri Dreams - September 14 2009: "Lightcraft: A Laser Push to Orbit"
September 15 2009: "Lightcraft Experiments Continue"

thanks for the information!!

I do believe that today's lasers are powerful enough to lift up a full size lightcraft, I think the problem is that these lasers require large amounts of energy and they require large amounts of very toxic chemicals to get that energy. We'll have to wait until they bring a satellite that uses the Sun's energy to power up a laser. Who knows, this may be the next generation of flight. Sometime in the future the lasers will be small and efficient enough to be on the ship, propelling itself.

sounds like fart

There might be an ether interaction when plasma is involved. If there is a Tesla solution to anti gravity ( which we do not know about) as he talked about his aircraft from 1910 to 1934, I'd say his craft would work on the ether system.

boats n hoes

lol... allot of conspiracy nut cases in the comment section. wake up fools, there is no such thing as anti gravity, at least not yet. over powering gravitational force by electromagnetic is not " anti gravity" the same way rockets are not consider "anti gravity" you just over powering it with a stronger force, since gravity is the weakest force.

Wow, and they got the 3 elements for success!
(I always knew there was one lost)