Things Are Good

An airbus carrying 155 people crashed into the Hudson river in New York City yesterday and everyone survived. Wow! This is the first I’ve heard of a plane this big ditching in water and people live. Absolutely stunning!

The BBC has an article on the amazing pilot who saved the day.
According to air traffic controllers, [...]

A recent test flight of a unmodified airliner that used an algae-based biofuel was a great success! This is good news for air travelers as it will mean that their carbon footprint will be greatly reduced when airliners switch to the more efficient biofuel.
The test by Houston-based Continental, the fourth-largest U.S. airline, is a step [...]

Not only is the proposed A2 aircraft fast (really fast! London to Sydney in 5 hours), it would be one of the greenest in the sky!
Perhaps this plane will even land at the green airports.
Because it is fuelled by liquid hydrogen, the aircraft only produces water vapour and nitrous oxide as exhaust and has a [...]

Airplanes are not good for the environment, indeed the aviation industry is really good at being inefficient (they are trying to improve that though). Airports are trying to make themselves more planet-friendly, and in Singapore a green terminal has just opened. Let’s hope that Singapore leads the way in the greening of international airports.
The terminal [...]

Princeton University is looking into the details of using biofuels in jet airplanes. The research team will examine what fuel mixture provides the best efficiency and how engines can be designed to better burn the fuels that they are bound to create.
Alternative energy sources, if designed appropriately, also could significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse [...]

A solar plane that flew without a human to control it stayed aloft for 54 hours. That’s right a plane that relies on energy from the sun continued to operate overnight. The plane, the QinetiQ’s Zephyr, broke the previous record for a solar plane staying the air.
The Zephyr, developed by UK based QinetiQ, is [...]