Tag: Airplanes - Page 3
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Airport Protests Increased Emissions. Does It Matter?
From occupying airport runways to scaling the House of Parliament, the direct action anti-aviation activists of Plane Stupid are well known for courting controversy. With a number of
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Supersonic Jets Put Crocodiles in the Mood for Love
If you thought nothing put a crocodile in the mood for love quite like the beady, vacuous eyes and razor-sharp grin of a potential mate, think again. It turns out that, after millions of years on Earth, sometimes all a
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Airplanes = Largest Source of Lead Air Emissions
Get on a small plane, and carbon emissions aren't the only environmental problem to think about. Aviation fuel is the largest source of lead emissions, and Friends of the Earth is calling on the EPA to get it under
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Kenyan Man Builds Himself an Airplane From Scratch
If all goes according to plan, this week Gabriel Nderitu will join the ranks of aviation history by becoming the first Kenyan to achieve flight with a homemade airplane. The 42-year-old, like the Wright brothers before him,
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Student Makes History with First Ever Human-Powered Ornithopter Flight
Photo via Todd Reichert A Canadian university student has done what Leonardo da Vinci had only dreamt of: piloted a human-powered "wing-flapping" plane! Called an ornithopter, and the inspiration for modern day helicopters, the machine was first sketched
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Geese Bounce Back Despite NYC's Mass Kill Plan
Prompted by 2009's bird-related crash-landing of an airplane onto the Hudson River, last month New York City officials went ahead with a plan to euthanize more than 170,000 Canadian geese, out of a statewide population of
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Wretched Excess Dept: The Interiors of Private Jets
We do go on that flying is dying, and have complained before about the carbon footprint of private jets. We often complain about ostentatious monster homes. But I have never seen anything like a slideshow in the Telegraph of the interiors of the
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How Can We Reduce Oil Consumption & Still Ship Goods and Ourselves Around the Globe?
Two things which I think are worth keeping front and center when discussing how we wean ourselves off our petroleum addiction: Travel between nations is good; trade between nations is
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Boeing Unveils Hydrogen-Powered Phantom Eye Unmanned Drone
First Flight: Early 2011Boeing has just unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, and aircraft that should be able to stay up at 65,000 feet for up to four days without refueling. Of course Boeing's first
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NASA Wants to Make Flying at Mach 1 a Little Greener
With what looks a bit more like a giant lawn dart than an airplane, NASA has a vision for a quieter, more environmentally friendly future for supersonic air travel. Called the Supersonic Green Machine, the airplane was designed by
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Ask Pablo: Is A Freezer Chest The Environmentally Friendly Choice?
Image Source: Jonny Hunter Dear Pablo: I grow plenty of vegetables in the summer but can't in the winter. In addition to preserving what I can in canning jars, I am thinking about getting a freezer chest to store my vegetables into the winter. I am
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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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Robot Butterfly Means Breakthroughs for Biomimicry in Aviation (Video)
While butterfly populations worldwide struggle to stay afloat as the global temperature rises and changes their migration patterns and food sources, scientists have been hard at work coming up with their replacement - the
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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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I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here
Now that the planes are flying and the Royal Navy is on the seas, it's time for a bit of fun... Everyone gets a perverse enjoyment out of seeing the rich and pampered reduced to travelling steerage and the air shut down was a
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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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Inflatable Bike Case Makes Taking Your Bike Easier
For all those times you wish you could have brought your bike with you on the train, bus or plane, now there is Biknd Helium. The Helium bike case is not quite lighter than air, but definitely lighter than a standard hard case, weighing in
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Flying Around the World Powered by the Sun
With the technology available today, powering an airplane with solar power doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But this isn't keeping people from trying. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, specifically, are working to build a
