Hijack-proof aeroplanes
News
New technology will make hijacking virtually impossible.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 18, 2006
Ofcom looking into mobile phone use on aeroplanes
News
Could be implemented as soon as 2008
Source: Pocket-lint
Date Published: October 19, 2007
Cruise ship of the skies
Features
A mixture of airship and aeroplane technology.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 10, 2006
Research bumps up aerodynamics
News
Tiny regular bumps applied to the wing of an aeroplane can substantially reduce total air resistance, and thereby the consumption of fuel.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: February 28, 2006
Korean Air orders Boeing aircraft
News
Boeing and Korean Air have announced that the two companies have finalised an order for 25 aeroplanes with a value of approximately $5.6bn at list prices.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: January 05, 2007
Bruce is the word
Features
It's gone 9.50 as I sit gnawing on Spain's version of a hotdog and waiting for Bruce Springsteen and his old gang, back together for the first time in five years with a new album, and here in Madrid's Palacio de Deportes to kick off the European leg of their world tour. They're nearly an hour late, but then, famously, nobody in this town goes to bed until it's time to get up again and this vast, roiling football crowd of an audience - roaring at every flicker on stage like dogs barking at aeroplanes - seems happy just to be in the building.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 02, 2007
High-speed to the Spanish coast
Features
In his book, The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux makes an eloquent case for travelling by train. As he says: "The train can reassure you in awful places – a far cry from the anxious sweats of doom that aeroplanes inspire, or the nauseating gas-sickness of the long-distance bus, or the paralysis that afflicts the car passenger."
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: February 18, 2008
