Not only airplanes are looking to reduce their carbon emissions, but the current environmental situation has also pushed engineers to look for other green alternatives for air-transport. One of these new developments are Hybrid Airships their shape can easily be confused with a Zeppelin (as the Hindenburg). Hybrid Airships refer to any type of airships…
Tag: Aviation
Flying cars, the new thing?
Whenever futuristic scenes appear in films there are flying cars present. It is an image we have about how the future might be, but has the future finally arrived? Short take-off and Landing aircraft (STOL) have gained a lot of force over the past couple of years and also the ones that can be both…
What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel?
The aviation industry is a big polluter of our World, accounting for approximately 2-3% of the manmade global carbon emissions and that means we need to find ways to reduce CO2 emissions in the following years. This is an urgent situation because of the growth of air traffic in the past years and the predicted…
How airlines choose new routes?
Have you ever thought of the importance of airline routes? A great choice can lead to great profit over one single route, take as an example the route London Heathrow (LHR) to New York (JFK), which is the highest profit route in the world (€ 1.000.000.000/year) mostly due to the high first and business class…
James H. Doolittle
Today’s turn its for one of that people that deserves his own Hollywood movie, meet James H. Doolittle. Born in California in 1896, Doolittle was a short kid, such thing made him being bullied by his classmates till he started boxing, turning de odds and giving him a strong personality but his first contact with…
Henri Coandă
The life of a pioneer Henri Marie Coandă was born on June 7th, 1886, in Bucharest, in the family of the soldier and politician Constantin Coandă, being the second child in a large family. His father was General in the Romanian army, a mathematics teacher at the National School of Bridges and Roads and Prime Minister of Romania for…