Tag: Airplanes - Page 7
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Creative Recycling: 747 Turned into Hostel
Jumbo jets are magnificent machines, but when they go to die they bake in the desert, perhaps get converted into houses, or scrapped. At the same time, people are sleeping on airport floors as airlines go bankrupt, overbook or get caught in changing
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Delta to Bring Wi-Fi to the Skies, Jet Blue to Charge for Blankets
High fuel costs have sent the airlines scrambling to do anything to shave costs, raise rates wherever possible (e.g., charging for checked baggage) and still attract more passengers. This trend is continuing as Delta Airlines has announced that it will
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Congress Moves to Ban In-Flight Cell Phone Use
America is facing many challenges at the moment: gas prices, two ongoing wars, health care, social security, and the credit crisis, to name a few. So it might come as a bit of a surprise (or perhaps not!) that Congress spent yesterday trading horror
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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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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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Most Huggable: An Undiscovered Amazon, Green Sunscreen, Super-Sized Climate Change + More
An un-contacted tribe is found in the Amazon—another forest community threatened by illegal logging.
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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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Survey: Should Cellphones Be Allowed on Airplanes?
It is not really a TreeHugger question; in this day of "flying is dying" we should be asking if people should be allowed on airplanes. But hey, Andrew did a post on it, noting that in Europe, passengers will soon be able to use their phones on planes,
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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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Solar Plane Grounded for Lack of Funds
We first heard about Bertrand Piccard and his plan to fly around the world in the solar-powered SolarImpulse in 2005. Now it's time for an update. After raising $60 million, the swiss adventurer is only $30 million short of his goal, and currently
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You've Travelled the World. Now Change It.
"You've travelled the world. Now change it." says We Are What We Do, the global social movement. They have been changing the world (for a Fiver and 9 to 5) for three years now and thought it was high time to raise their sights about 35,000
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Next Up for Aircraft Technology: Bird and Bat-Inspired Flapping-Wing Planes
It's no big secret that we here at TreeHugger are ardent fans of biomimicry; we were therefore quite interested to read about the efforts of a team of University of Michigan engineers to design flapping-wing planes
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Wayback Machine 1947: House from a Horsa
We thought David Hertz's conversion of a 747 into a house was interesting, but Arthur Bedford, a contractor in Southbourn, Hampshire, had him beat in 1947. He converted a WWII Airspeed Horsa Glider into a lovely little flat. "The glider-home will have
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Watch Out for Flying Heather
Helicopters are dropping bales containing billions of heather seeds on the peat bogs in the Midlands of England. Ordinarily and historically, peat bogs are natural storages for C02 and are an important aspect of the fight against climate change
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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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Virgin Atlantic testing Bio-fuel on Jumbo Jet
Virgin boss, Richard Branson, has announced that not only will his company begin producing bio-fuels, but that he is going to test them out on one of his own 747s. Would you want to be on this maiden flight?
