What’s Nicer Than a Flying Saucer?
(((A green, eco-friendly flying saucer.))) Link: Flying Saucer Designed for Greener Air Travel | LiveScience. Eco-conscious travelers buy off their global warming guilt with carbon offsets that promote wind farms and reforestation. Meanwhile, aviation engineers are taking another route, designing a more environmentally sustainable airplane that may overturn long-held notions of flight engineering. “I want to get rid of the image of a cylindrical body with wings,” said Etnel Straatsma of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. (((An *imaginary, Dutch-designed,* green, eco-friendly flying saucer from Delft!))) The plane of the future, in Straatsma’s vision, might be as wild as a flying saucer. She and other engineers are toying with lighter materials and some are pondering ideas as radical as returning to propeller-driven planes as an eco-friendly alternative to passenger jets….
