How Three Letters Brought Down UK Air Traffic Control

#news #transportationhacks #airtrafficcontrol #airtransport #softwarebugs #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2

How Three Letters Brought Down UK Air Traffic Control

The UK bank holiday weekend at the end of August is a national holiday in which it sometimes seems the entire country ups sticks and makes for somewhere with a beach. This year though, many of them…

An Airbus A380 just flew powered by cooking oil | CNN Travel

It's huge, it's wide, and it's potentially a lot more sustainable. The Airbus A380, a behemoth of the skies, has completed a trial flight powered on cooking oil.
The test airplane completed a three-hour flight from Blagnac Airport in Toulouse -- Airbus' French headquarters -- on 25 March. It was powered by Sustainable Aviation Fuel, or SAF -- predominantly made of used cooking oil and waste fats -- and operating on a single Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine.

Didn't they use this idea in Top Gun, when Goose is cooked...?

#science #technology #tech #transport #AirTransport #FuelTechnology

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-a380-saf-cooking-oil-scn/index.html

An A380 superjumbo just completed a flight powered by cooking oil

The world's largest commercial passenger airliner has completed a test flight powered entirely by SAF -- sustainable aviation fuel, composed mainly of cooking oil — an achievement that could help pave the way for greener flying.