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06/20/2018 / By David Williams

Electric planes make debut at Fresno’s Chandler Airport

It wasn’t that long ago when the world saw the first working airplane take to the skies, relatively speaking. Since then, aviation technology has improved by leaps and bounds. Now a brand new one-of-a-kind electric plane has debuted in the U.S. through the Fresno Chandler Executive Airport, and they show that great things lie ahead […]

02/11/2018 / By David Williams

World’s first biofuel flight between U.S. and Australia achieved with a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner filled with 24,000 kilos of mustard seed-based blended fuel

The world’s first biofuel flight turned out to be a huge success, and it was powered by 24,000 kilograms of mustard seed-based blended fuel. The historic achievement was made possible through a partnership between airline company Qantas Airways and Agrisoma Biosciences, an agricultural-technology company that’s based in Canada. The two companies announced a partnership back […]

03/26/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Battery-powered commercial jetliners could eliminate jet fuel entirely, making air travel vastly less expensive

Wright Electric, a new American start-up expressed plans of introducing commercial, electric flights from London to Paris in the next 10 years. The plane, they said, would be able to accommodate up to 150 people on flights of less than 300 miles. However the plane is yet to go into development. According to the start-up, […]

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