Hijack-proof aeroplanes
News
New technology will make hijacking virtually impossible.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 18, 2006
Looming aeroplanes
News
Textile industry’s tool is becoming an aeroplane material designer.
Source: scenta
Date Published: June 17, 2008
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
New wave protesters target airport expansion
Features
On Monday morning the activists were perched on the tailfin of a BA Airbus 320 at Heathrow. By Wednesday climate change protesters had scaled the roof of parliament and were launching paper aeroplanes made of documents claiming the airport's expansion is a political fix.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 01, 2008
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
