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NTSB: Battery Defect Cause of Boeing 787 Fire

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Defects in design and certification were responsible for a lithium-ion battery fire on a parked Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Boston last January, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s final report on the incident. The fire prompted an immediate grounding of Dreamliners by the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as ... Read more »

GE Aviation, Turbocoating Form Coating Joint Venture

December 2, 2014December 2, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

GE Aviation and Turbocoating SPA of Parma, Italy, have formed a 50/50 joint venture, called Advanced Ceramic Coatings, to provide thermal barrier coatings for ceramic matrix composite components (CMCs) used in jet engines to improve efficiency and fuel economy. CMCs are made of silicon carbide ceramic fibers and ceramic matrix, ... Read more »

Boeing ecoDemonstrator Tests Green Technology

December 1, 2014December 1, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Boeing ecoDemonstrator 787 has begun flight testing more than 25 technologies aimed at improving aviation’s environmental performance. This new round of testing, using 787 Dreamliner ZA004, will evaluate software and connectivity technologies related to operational efficiency, remote sensors to reduce wiring, aerodynamic and flight control improvements for greater fuel ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Boeing, Indianapolis, SCT Fleet Solutions

October 30, 2014October 29, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Boeing and Commercial Aircraft of China have opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil into aviation biofuel. The two companies estimate that 500 million gallons of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil. Indianapolis will deploy the largest municipal fleet of electrified vehicles ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Volvo, Alcoa, HyperSolar, California Energy Commission

September 29, 2014September 26, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Volvo will officially launch its 7900 electric hybrid bus (pictured) at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show at the end of the month. The bus offers fuel savings of 75 percent, energy reduction of 60 percent, and CO2 reduction of 75 percent. Alcoa will roll out its lightest heavy-duty truck ... Read more »

Are Carbon-Free Flights the Future of Travel?

September 22, 2014September 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

According to research conducted by YouGov and commissioned by Virgin, 40 percent of people asked said that the innovation they would most like to see become a reality within the next 20 years was carbon-free commercial flights.

Airport Carbon Management Standard Takes Off

September 11, 2014September 10, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the first North American airport to earn Airport Carbon Accreditation, a carbon management standard launched by the Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) this week. The program is similar to one that has been in place in Europe since 2009, the airport industry group says. The program ... Read more »

EPA Targets Aircraft Emissions

September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The EPA last week said it would propose an endangerment finding, which would allow it to regulate aircraft greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act if it determines that aircraft GHGs contribute to air pollution and endanger public health. The agency says it will release its findings in April ... Read more »

Boeing to Recycle Dreamliner Carbon Fiber

August 28, 2014August 27, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Boeing and Russell Brands are teaming up to recycle excess carbon fiber from 787 Dreamliner production into protective athletic gear. The companies are expanding on a previous collaboration where 787 carbon fiber is placed into Russell Athletic’s CarbonTek football shoulder pad system. Boeing currently markets surplus factory materials to meet the ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Volvo, Renault-Nissan, Mitsubishi, Greenlots, BMW

August 19, 2014August 18, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Volvo Trucks’ 2016 VN series highway tractors will offer greater fuel savings compared with previous generation models. Sculpting of airflow around the exterior and underneath the hood improves fuel efficiency by up to 3.5 percent, and Volvo’s new XE-Adaptive Gearing and Torque Management options can provide fuel efficiency improvements of ... Read more »

GE ‘Data Lake’ Increases Fuel, Energy Efficiency

August 13, 2014August 13, 2014 by Ken Jennison

General Electric has created an industrial-scale data lake software system that could help industry manage big data, and in the case of airlines, help increase fuel efficiency. In a 2013 pilot, GE Aviation collected information on 15,000 flights from 25 different airlines at about 14 gigabytes of metrics per flight. ... Read more »

GOL Completes First International Flight with Alternative Biofuel

August 4, 2014August 4, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Brazilian airline GOL completed its first international commercial flight this week using farnesane, a recently approved renewable jet fuel that is made from sugarcane and produced by industrial bioscience company Amyris. The flight departed from Orlando, Florida on July 30, 2014 at 5:15 p.m. ET and traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil. ... Read more »

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