Future Option for Aviation Fuel

            Boeing, the largest airplane manufacture in the world, is looking to go green. Their quest is to find a fuel that will greatly reduce the environmental damage that results from all of their jets without out a complete overhaul of a fleet that has thousands of jets across the world. The researchers are looking into developing a bio-fuel out of soy beans or algae that they will first use in Boeing’s crown jewel, the 747. A bio-fuel that could be used without making any adaption to the fleet is the Boeing researcher’s ultimate goal. The scientists have a tremendous challenge ahead of them because the bio-fuel needs to have similar properties of today’s fossil fuels, which keep them from freezing and packing vast amounts energy for the large turbine engines. Due to the large amount of crops that would be required to produce the massive amount of bio-fuel needed to fuel the fleet, they must also integrate the blend in slowly, probably at rates of 20 to 50 percent once they get the proper blend.

 González, Ángel. "To Go Green in Jet Fuel, Boeing Looks at Algae." The Seattle Times.The Seattle Times, 30 Aug. 2007. Web. 25 Mar. 2012. <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2003858756_boeingenergy30.html>.

Winged Aviation

          Aviation, “the operation of heavier-than- air aircraft,” specifically winged aviation is one of the greatest inventions of the last century (“Aviation,” def. 1, Merriam-Webster). The Wright Flyer designed and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright that first flew on December 17, 1903 ushered in countless opportunities for future generations that were not even imaginable for their time. This great invention must pay tribute to earlier inventors--such as those whom developed the combustion engine, which was a vital piece for powered flight in the early 1900’s. The ultimate goal of this blog is to be informative of some of the biggest and maybe a few, small, upcoming inventions or technologies in development of winged aviation. Nothing about winged aviation is off limits to be blogged about­--from future planes that can pierce into space, to latest kind of toilet you will be using the next time you are on a commercial flight. If I can find information on it I will deliver it.

 

 

"Aviation." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster. Web. 25 Mar. 2012.

            <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aviation>.

"The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age." The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the                   Aerial Age- National Air and Space Museum Exhibition Home Page. Web. 25 Mar. 2012.               <http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/>.