Latest Stories in Aviation - Page 5
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No Third Runway But Here's an Architectural Bunker to Block It
Much to the joy of environmentalists, in its first week the new coalition government in the UK announced that the third runway at Heathrow Airport was being cancelled.
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MIT-Designed Futuristic Airplanes Use 70% Less Fuel Than Current Models
What will the airplanes of the future be like? This is the question that the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT tried to answer for NASA. The goal
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Australia Developing the World's First Biofuel Capable Helicopter
Earlier this year, our transport editor, Mike, pondered the concept of diesel helicopters. Well, they may be closer than he thought. Delta Helicopters of Queensland, Australia, are already prepping their Delta D2
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Green Hornet: F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Plane Flies on 50/50 Biofuel Blend
Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain.Biofuels Probably Have a Brighter Future in Aviation than Ground TransportThe U.S. military is the #1 consumer of oil in the world, and the Navy's ships and planes use a large fraction of the total. For strategic
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A Picture is Worth: First Plane over London
John-Paul Flintoff titled his post yesterday "Grounded planes cause mass starvation in London" which as he notes, was a bit of an exaggeration. But is certainly food for thought, as we consider the resilience of the global transport
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The Return of the Contrails
The end of the ban on flying seems to be touch and go with most flights still cancelled until later this afternoon. But some are rhapsodizing about a world without planes and the joys of cloud watching
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Volcanic Haze Closes British Airports; Continent Cut Off
Another reason to take the train: Apparently planes cannot fly in volcanic ash. An eruption in Iceland is shutting down airports across the UK and spreading to the rest of Europe.
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Flying the Hybrid Skies
Hybrid vehicles cruising the highways have become a common sight across the country. Now, one aviation expert believes, it's time to bring that technology into the air.Good writes:
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Is Virgin Galactic's Claim To Be Green Reasonable? Actually, Sort Of
It must have been a beautiful sight, the maiden flight of the Enterprise. Burt Rutan says that it "signifies the start of what we believe will be an extremely exciting and successful spaceship flight test
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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)
Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to our
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British Airways' to Create Jet Fuel from Landfill Waste
With the US Airforce announcing that cost-competitive algae jet fuel may be just months away, greener flying is looking less and less like pie in the sky. Despite seeing its profits squeezed by
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UK Ambassadors to Fly Economy Class to Cut Carbon
In Mike's excellent piece on greener flying, he carefully explained how business class passengers have higher per-passenger emissions than economy. Terrapass have also covered this in their tips for sustainable air
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Cost-Competitive Algae Jet Fuel Just Months Away: Pentagon
I'm not sure whether the Pentagon's clean energy projects count toward the idea that environmentalism is socialist, or whether they get a free pass because, well, they are the Pentagon and they know a thing or two
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Cold War Era Plane Converted Into Luxury Hotel Suite
TreeHugger loves recycling, and has shown a number of planes recycled into hotels. But none so luxurious as this renovation of a former 120-seater into a luxury suite for two, at Teuge airport in the Netherlands.
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Aerolabe Flying Machine: Solar Powered Future of Aviation?
Part of the blimp rebirth movement, a cigar-shaped airship is under development at a French mechanics institute. Dubbed the Aerolabe, the vessel is designed by
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A Picture is Worth: Advertising By Amtrak In TSA Security Line
Caught by Julia Allison in the TSA screening line at O'Hare: "I couldn't stop laughing at the ads on the bottom of the bins - Amtrak had a stroke of genius." also at @juliaallison
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UPDATE: Air Travel Is Not Going To Be As Bad As We Thought
TreeHugger previously suggested that air travel was going to be so miserable, that we would all be treated like Cyrus the Virus in Con Air, strapped to our seats in orange jumpsuits, that people might just stop doing it, in our post Is Air Travel Now
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Is Air Travel Now More Trouble Than It's Worth?
Forget the lines while you wait to get on the plane, the real torture starts when you are in the air. Gizmodo lists the new rules, and flying has just become a far more miserable experience than it ever was before; we
