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- Can We Make Flying “Green”? Wed, 25 Jan 23, 1:00amWhat can we do to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel?
- Solar Impulse 2 is ready to soar with the sun again Fri, 4 Mar 16, 3:48amSolar Impulse 2, the solar-powered plane piloted by André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, is ready to continue its revolutionary voyage around the world...
- NASA inks first contract for the supersonic passenger jet of our dreams Wed, 2 Mar 16, 3:05amNearly 70 years ago, pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 rocket plane (now on display at the Smithsonian). Now, NASA has announced they will build on that historic flight with a contract to design a...
- Virgin Atlantic Announces Plans to Fuel Airplanes With Waste Gas Wed, 12 Oct 11, 3:50amAirline mogul and billionaire Richard Branson just announced that in three years Virgin Atlantic airplanes will be fueled by waste gas from power plants, steel works, and aluminum plants...
- Embry-Riddle Students Make History With “Eco Eagle” Hybrid Propulsion Aircraft Sat, 17 Sep 11, 6:20amStudents at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently demonstrated an aviation first by cruising the sky in a hybrid propulsion aircraft. A team of nearly 200 students spent the last year and a half designing, manufacturing,...
- Terrafugia’s Transition Flying Car Plane Can Drive Itself Home From the Airport Wed, 13 Jul 11, 10:32pmFlying cars are here! Well, “roadable planes” are at least. The Terrafugia Transition is a two-seat prop plane that can legally drive itself home from the airport, converting from a 100-horsepower plane...
- EADS Seaweed-Powered Zero Emission ZEHST Plane Could Travel from London to New York in an Hour Mon, 20 Jun 11, 11:01pmBefore the official opening of the Paris Air Show, Airbus parent company EADS revealed what it has in the works to be the successor to the Concorde jet: the Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation plane, which could reach...
- The Octuri Wind Powered Yacht Doubles as a Plane Tue, 14 Jun 11, 2:41amPut this on the list of things we’ll buy when we’re rich and famous. Designer Yelken Octuri has created a flying yacht for princes Aziz, Dawood and Hashim. The flying yacht was designed to allow the princes to...
- New ‘Flash Bainite’ Super Steel is Lighter, Stronger, and Cuts Energy Use by 80-90% Tue, 14 Jun 11, 12:14amIt has long been an accepted fact that steel is as good as it’s going to get: the innovators of the last century took care of developing the best processes to create as strong and light a product as possible, using...
- The Octuri Flying Yacht Turns Into a Plane Whenever the Princes Who Own It Desire Mon, 13 Jun 11, 10:54pmPut this on the list of things we’ll buy when we’re rich and famous. Designer Yelken Octuri has created a flying yacht for princes Aziz, Dawood and Hashim, corporate executives of the Masqat Airways air transport...
- Solar-Powered Airship Could Offer Emissions-Free Cargo Hauling Wed, 14 Apr 10, 1:18amThe High Speed Solar Airship (HSSA) is a high-flying airship concept that proposes using thin-film solar panels and other off-the-shelf components to create a cost-competitive, high speed vessel for cargo hauling...