Feasibility Study of a Nuclear-powered Passenger Aircraft

A thorough redesign of the aircraft industry is needed to cope with diminishing fossil fuel reserves, including operation, aircraft design and propulsion systems. The European Commission sponsors the RECREATE research project to investigate the cruiser-feeder set-up, in which cruise-optimised aircraft stay aloft for extended periods while feeder...

Up! How to Launch and Retrieve a Tethered Aircraft

The basic model of the principle of crosswind power as described by Miles M. Loyd in 1980 (Loyd, 1980), promises a high energy revenue from airborne wind energy. With a growing awareness of the need of sustainable energy resources and the current technological possibilities, different initiatives are undertaken to harvest the energy of wind at...