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The first private supersonic aircraft since Concorde retired two decades ago has taken to the skies. On March 22, Boom’s XB-1 supersonic demonstrator completed its maiden flight at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Video: Next-gen supersonic aircraft takes flight
Green-energy businessman Dale Vince has revealed plans to set up the UK’s first electric aviation company. Ecojet will repurpose conventional aircraft to fly on hydrogen-electric power, with domestic flights planned to start as early as 2025.
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GE once thought super-efficient propfans were the future of air travel, until low fuel prices in the late 1980s moved fuel consumption down the list of priorities. Now, it’s bringing them back with the CFM Rise, promising 20% fuel savings.Continue Read… Continue reading GE resurrects the propfan aircraft engine, cutting fuel burn by 20%
For wheelchair users, air travel can be a cumbersome and frustrating experience. That’s where a new type of airliner seat is designed to come in, as it allows passengers to stay in their own wheelchair throughout the flight.Continue ReadingCategory: Go… Continue reading Adaptable airliner seat accepts passengers’ wheelchairs as needed
There’s precious little human dignity in economy airline travel to begin with; why not go all the way? The HypNap TruRest offers you the opportunity to attempt sleep with your face mashed into a padded cradle, and arrive red, wrinkly and refreshed.Cont… Continue reading Trurest lets you faceplant your way to sleep on economy flights
The agency’s new cybersecurity rules issued on Tuesday followed the Biden administration’s national cybersecurity strategy.
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A couple of years ago, Delta Air Lines previewed a passenger information system where a number of travelers looking at the same screen would each be served up different views. Now that Parallel Reality technology is flying into Detroit later this month… Continue reading Single Delta board delivers personalized flight info to numerous passengers
Jet airliners are typically “retired” after around 30 years of service, and while there are many ways to re-use bits of them – such as chopping off their cabin sections to be fitted out as training simulators – many are ignominiously fated to rust away… Continue reading Cute office pods give new life to decommissioned airliner fuselages
Zero-emissions airliners are still a long way off, but Lufthansa and BASF have developed a way to improve things right now. AeroShark is an adhesive riblet film that immediately reduces fuel consumption, and therefore emissions, from any aircraft.Conti… Continue reading Shark-skin-inspired film immediately drops airliner fuel consumption
Zero-emissions airliners are still a long way off, but Lufthansa and BASF have developed a way to improve things right now. AeroShark is an adhesive riblet film that immediately reduces fuel consumption, and therefore emissions, from any aircraft.Conti… Continue reading Shark-skin-inspired film immediately drops airliner fuel consumption