Air transporting arrangement

An arrangement for generating a flow of air along an airflow path therefor with the aid of an electric ion-wind, comprising a corona electrode in said airflow path, at least one target electrode located in said airflow path downstream of and spaced from said corona electrode as seen in the axial extension of the airflow path and being permeable to a flow of air along said path, and a d.c. voltage source having a first terminal connected to said corona electrode and a second terminal connected to said target electrode for creating an air ion producing corona discharge at said corona electrode, said corona electrode including at least one wire-like electrode element located close to the symmetry axis of said airflow path and having such dimensions and such orientation that its extension in directions perpendicular to said symmetry axis is substantially much smaller that the total cross-sectional dimensions of said airflow path, and lacking ends at which the electrical field strength exceeds the electrical field strength at the peripheral surface of the electrode element, so as to avoid punctiform corona-discharge concentrations and to confine the corona discharge to the peripheral surface of the electrode element.