How To create GREEN AIRCRAFT????

hOw to create green aircraft? Very good question, but before answer that, first we must give proper definition to the word green aircraft. For me its means aircraft that produce less pollution, either poisonous gas or noise, burning less fuel and production of aircraft itself from environmentally friendly material and system.

To produce less pollution, effort must come radically change in aircraft baseline design configuration and the fuel system. Curruent baseline design create unnecessary drag, especially in tail. This design also create high noise. Jet fuel also produce a lot of CO2 and NOx, which contribute to green house effect and ozone problem.

To burn less fuel, the aircraft must extremely light. Less weight less fuel need to create lift. Composite material maybe one of the answer to this problem. Consider new Boeing 787 Dreamliner which 50% of its structure made from composite.

Manufacturing green aircraft also require green method in its production line. The factory must use energy saving equipment and using electricity from green source such as solar, or wind power. Material itself must be green. Current interest in composite has increase demand for fibreglass and carbon fibre. However this material are hazardous and not easily to dispose. Therefore, current effort must be focus to produce green aircraft.

GrEEn Aircraft

As the world moving towards green revolution, when everybody nowadays talk about global warming, kyoto aggreement, carbon foot print, biofuels, etc, there are growing demands for greener aircraft. An aircraft which burn less fuel, emit less CO2 and NOX gas. Therefore, for this month I will post a lot of story, articles and pictures related to green aircraft.

For start, I will write about new aircraft propose by easy jet, known as ecoJET. Nothing radical about this aircraft, except for rotary balade that rotate outside the engine shell (like propeller engine) at the tail wing and forward swept wing.

From these pictures clearly show the forward swept wing and rotary blade place above horizontal tail, attach to the vertical tail with pusher configuration.

EasyJet's plans would put the airline five years ahead of CO2 cuts targeted by aviation body ACARE of 50 percent by 2020, although it plans to more than double its fleet size by then.Easyjet said 25 percent of CO2 emissions would be cut by using open rotor engines, which must be placed above the tail due to their size, while 15 percent would be cut by using the lighter airframe and 10 percent by air traffic control improvements.

"This is not Star Trek technology," as quote from easyJet Chief Executive Andy Harrison."This is technology that is well within our reach. We are talking to Boeing and Airbus. We are working with manufacturers to get this aircraft delivered in 2015.""We are currently spending 4 billion pounds ($7.88 billion) on aircraft -- they are listening to us," he added.

I love the last word, "they are listening to us", WOW!!!! for decades all airlines only take what ever aircraft produced by manufacturer, but today the manufacturer have to listen to the airliner. Maybe few years in the future, we as consumer can told manufacturer and airliner what we really want. anyway bravo Harry, looking forward to fly with that aircraft.

bEauTifuL aIrCrafT

Last week I went to my sister house and the most interesting is her house is near to the airport. So for a week I saw flight comes and goes. One thing that I noticed, current aircraft is too ugly!! UGLY??why?

Yeah, just a tube (fuselage), and wing at the midlle and back. When i look the aircraft that fly in the sky, wah....so not beautiful. So with advance in technology, we have beautiful aerodynamic sport car, why can't we have beautiful aerodynamic sport aircraft. Maybe sport aircraft not a correct word, but don't we had any which we can called as beautiful aircraft.

So., I surf and what I can say that I only found 2 aircraft that I can call it beautiful. One is CONCORDE, which is passenger supersonic aircraft. Another one is B2 Spririt bomber, stealth bomber used by USAF. So enjoy the picture, and if you've got other beautiful aircraft just let me know.(hei...please not concept design aircraft kay, i'm worry you it might be jet in star wars movies). Maybe later i will write about these 2 aircraft in detail...

Concorde....look at the nose, seriously can bend like that??






B2 SpiRit.....seriously like boomerang