Latest Stories in Aviation - Page 9
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'Hy-Bird' Airplane Powered by Solar PV and Hydrogen Fuel Cell, To Make Round-the-World Flight
I feel a bit weird posting
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Bombardier Launches Fuel Efficient Jet
Life hasn't been easy for the airlines lately. As fuel prices wreak havoc with the industry's bottom line, carriers have responded by dumping older, less efficient jets,
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The Slimfast Diet for Airplanes
We learned in back in high school physics that it takes energy to move a mass, and the more mass, the more energy. Paul Kedrosky lists some of the tiny moves that airlines are making to squeeze every ounce
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Airship Tours of London: A Photo Essay
Lloyd noted a little while ago that Zeppelins are back, and they are even offering passenger journeys, as opposed to just cargo (like the SkyHook being proposed for the Alberta Tar Sands, of all places). However for now, when I say passenger journeys,
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CEOs of Twelve U.S. Airlines Don't Read IEA Reports, Blame High Oil Prices on Speculation
A couple of days ago we wrote about how the Internataional Energy Agency believes how it is wrong to blame speculators for the current high oil prices. Based on an email titled "An Open Letter to all Airline Customers"
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Airlines To Be Included in EU Emission Trading Scheme from 2012
In the ongoing effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, the airline industry has been the focus of a good deal of criticism. Some airlines themselves have announced plans to reduce their
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Solar Powered "Turtle Airship": The New Way to Fly, Redux
Why do I feel like what I’m about the present isn’t real—that’s it’ll come out that it’s really just a big sociology experiment on the gullibility of bloggers?
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Japan Airlines To Make Biofuel Test Flight
We've documented pretty well the nexus of climate change pressure and rising fuel costs which are driving an increasing number of airlines to search for alternatives to petroleum-based fuels. Japan Airlines will join Air New
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Lufthansa to Increase Use of Biofuels in its Fleet, Slowly
In a move to improve "environmental efficiency", German airline Lufthansa has announced several environmental initiatives, all of which set long term goals for environmental performance. There are 15 "guidelines" which
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Pedal-Powered Blimp Attempts to Cross English Channel
A 16-metre long airship will hopefully be pedalled across the 55 kilometre wide English Channel later today, UK time. French sports enthusiast and pilot Stephane Rousson hopes to complete the journey in about five hours. He’ll be slung under the blimp
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New Airline Selling England By The Pound
London and Chicago, too. Airlines are getting so aggressive now, charging for extra luggage, cutting back on everything that adds weight to the plane. So let's get serious about it: why not charge passengers by the pound? They do it already with
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Air New Zealand Sets Sustainable Biofuels Goal for 2013
It seems like there's a lot of buzz around non-food biofuels in aviation these days. Only yesterday we reported on a company promoting algae biofuels technology to KLM airlines and major cruiseships, although it has to be said that some of our
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Zeppelins are Back, Too
Sami noted that turboprops were back; It took a while, but Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin left an endowment to ensure that his eponymous airship rose again too. Sean Dodson of The Guardian is full of bad puns as he writes: "it's hard to keep an idea as
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Efficient Modern Turboprop Aircraft are Making a Comeback
The turboprop aircraft is making a comeback, with sales to one of the only remaining manufacturers quadrupling in 2007 and a continued upsurge expected. With high oil prices, concerns over climate change, and uncertain economic conditions keeping
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Delta Airlines Takes Small Paper-less Step Towards Greening
After posting on JetBlue’s new green initiative, we were eager to hear about the latest changes at Delta Airlines to go green as well. Heck, after all of the news this week about airlines suffering more setbacks due to rising costs, we figured that
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First Commercial Fuel Cell Powered Aircraft Just One of Many Eco-Angles at 2008 ILA Berlin Air Show
Airbus and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) presented the first commercial aircraft powered by fuel cells at the ILA Berlin Air Show 2008. The latest addition to the DLR research fleet is an Airbus A320
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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
