Tag: Green Aircraft

Silent skies: Green Aircraft

Nov 9, 2006

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by

mwkruse

in Environment, Technology (Energy), Technology (Transportation & Distribution)

From the Economist: Silent skies: Green Aircraft …The researchers envisage a mid-range aircraft that would carry 215 passengers. Its top speed would be 0.8 Mach—that is, 0.8 times the speed of sound or around 600 miles per hour, slightly slower than the coming generation of airliners. Indeed, it is a slower speed that enables such…