By: Maycol Vargas Sources: BBC e Klein Vision Amsterdam, July 1st, 2021 — The AirCar, a dual-mode prototype car-aircraft from Klein Vision, came closer to commercial production this week, reaching an important development milestone: a 35-minute flight from the International Airport of Nitra to Bratislava International Airport on June 28, 2021. The AirCar, under the…
Read more
By: Maycol Vargas Source: Skiesmag Amsterdam, June 21st, 2021 — Public University of Waterloo opens a new institute focused on facing the challenges that threaten the sustainability of the aviation and aerospace sector. In order to stand up to the aviation social, environmental and economic sector challenges, the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics (WISA) was…
Read more
By: Maycol Vargas Source: Simple Flying Amsterdam, June 19th, 2021 – The Boeing aircraft 737 MAX 10 made its first flight on June 18th, 2021. The inaugural flight of Boeing 737 MAX took place at the Municipal Airport of Renton (RMT) and it happened in a very different way, if compared to inaugural flights of…
Read more
By: Maycol Vargas Source: ars Technica In the last days, two companies have drawn radically different yet strangely similar visions regarding the future of air travel. In both cases the potential to change air travel as we know it is immense. The first idea is based on the construction of a network of small electric…
Read more
By: Maycol Vargas Source: Simple Flying Amsterdam, June 2, 2021 — Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. connects over 150 international destinations and is present in America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania and has a fleet of over 200 aircraft. Qatar’s state-owned airline, based at the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, says that low-emission aircraft should be…
Read more
By: Maycol Vargas Amsterdam, May 28 — Joby Aviation is a startup founded in 2009 and actually has more than 700 employees. The company, based in California – US, is developing a piloted, all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL). The company’s main goal is the development of a silent, fast and non-polluting aircraft, thereby…
Read more
Part II The research question: how do the engines run? And also: what comes out of the jet engines? The DLR researchers are particularly curious about the amounts of fine dust and soot particles that come out of the engines. Because the sustainable fuel contains hardly any aromatics, it will emit less soot. But how…
Read more
Airbus Promising Future By: Maycol Vargas Amsterdam, 23 May, 2021 – Airbus, the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, began the assembling of the first A321XLR, shortly after the delivery of crucial Rear Center Tank earlier this month. The assembly of the long-range, narrow-body aircraft is being carried out in a dedicated hangar at the Airbus plant in…
Read more
Brazil x Holland Part I source: SKY/NRG/ coalition Sustainable Flying Amsterdam, 22 May 2021– You may soon be flying on used cooking oil from the snack bar to Gran Canaria. In Delfzijl, the Dutch company SkyNRG is building a factory that can convert waste vegetable fats and oils into a mixture of hydrocarbons that resembles…
Read more
Responsibility of Airlines and Manufacturers Part I Amsterdam May 13th 2021 — A zero-carbon fleet of passenger planes, that sweet and holy grail of sustainable aviation, came a little closer to reality last month when Airbus revealed the three designs it’s pursuing in its quest to introduce a hydrogen-powered aircraft into its fleet by 2035. Not…
Read more
Recent Comments