Latest Stories in Aviation - Page 10
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Jet Blue Reduces Its Carbon Footprint
When big culprits of CO2 emissions, like the airlines, decide to go green, we at Treehugger take notice. We've reported on airlines eliminating flights to save fuel, and got some really interesting commentson
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Hybrid Airplane-Car for Commuters of the Future?
So says Richard Jones, a technical fellow at Boeing Phantom Works, the advanced R&D; unit of Boeing. Jones' vision for a
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Boeing Flies First Ever Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plane
It's very light, it didn't fly very fast or very far, but the plane in the photo above made aviation history by making the first manned flight powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The Boeing Research & Technology Europe team in Madrid, Spain, modified a
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The New Air Force One Hybrid, 15-20% More Efficient
Our friends at HowStuffWorks had a look at the new presidential plane, Air Force One Hybrid. They break it down for you, from construction to operation.
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China to Build 97 Airports in 12 Years & the Future of Air Travel
According to China's People's Daily, 97 new airports will be built in China in the next 12 years. That will bring the total number to 244 airports by 2020. At the end of 2006, the number was 147, and it is expected that there will be 192 airports by
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Airlines Cut Flights and Planes to Save Fuel
We’ve already seen the profits of Ryanair and British Airways squeezed by higher oil prices, not to mention, in the words of Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary, ‘eco-loonies’ avoiding unnecessary air travel.
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US Airlines Must Pay the Price of Carbon Emissions or Lose EU Flights
If you're not attempting to reduce your airline's carbon emissions by flying the first all-biofuel jumbo-jet flight, the efficacy of which is in and of itself up for debate, the EU requires your airline to subscribe to a carbon trading *cough* scheme.
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Survey: Was American Airlines Wrong?
Environmentalists say the darndest things. Friends of the Earth is accusing American Airlines of reckless behaviour by flying five passengers from Chicago to London on a boeing 777, burning 22,000 gallons of fuel and producing 43 tons of CO2 per
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Airport Protesters Scale Parliament
It certainly seems like the folks protesting Heathrow Airport's planned runway expansion are not afraid of guns. Having breached security and climbed on top of a plane earlier this week, yesterday a group of activists found their way to the roof of
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Heathrow Protesters Breach Security
From mock billboards to the Camp for Climate Action, Heathrow Airport has been the scene of a number of climate-related protests. As far as we know, however, today may be the first time that campaigners have gone as far as breaching airport security
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Virgin Atlantic to Demo Biofuel Flight, but Not Quite There Yet
We've written about Richard Branson and Virgin's foray into biofuels for aviation. There are some news on that front, but unfortunately they aren't all good. Virgin was never clear on what type of biofuel it was going to use, but it said it wanted
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Ryanair Boss: "Recession Would End Environmental Nonsense Among Chattering Classes"
When we reported that British Airways was seeing its profits squeezed by the twin threat of rising oil prices and increased competition from rail, commenter Ecobore suspected it had more to do with the budget airlines than it did any shift to greener
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Super Bowl: A Greenhouse Gastravaganza
It is a new record; over 400 private jets are flying into Phoenix for the Super Bowl this weekend, carrying mostly corporate types and their clients. "The Giants in particular have a huge corporate fan base" said an organizer of corporate events in
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Will Cheap Flights Destroy Siena's Quiet Charm?
Cheap flights to Europe and beyond are a British addiction. For the price of a sandwich (plus taxes which are often more than the cost of the flight), one can fly just about anywhere for a long weekend ("city
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Fly Fast, Low and Fuel Efficient with Ground Effect
If we are looking for ways to burn less fuel high in the atmosphere, perhaps there are other ways to fly. The Focus 21 France relies on the "ground effect", where drag is significantly reduced when flying between 1-1/2 and 2 times the wingspan of the
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EU to Regulate Emissions From Airlines
As airlines and airplane manufacturers continue to concentrate on increasing capacity, the European Union (EU) took an important step in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the civil aviation sector. Earlier this week, the European Parliament
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Pack Less, Fly Direct, Stick With Economy: Greener Flying Tips from Terrapass
By now it is pretty well known, at least within the TreeHugger community, that there are issues with aviation and climate change. While the exact contribution that flying makes to the climate crisis remains the subject of fierce debate, it seems
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Turtle Airships: Not Slow, But Hardshelled
Edward de Bono, the champion of lateral thinking is credited with saying "It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
