The Future of Flying
By 2030, the plane arriving at your gate could resemble this: a fuel-efficient aircraft with theater seating and a radical, stingray-shaped design. Check out the video above, in which Condé Nast Traveler Senior Consulting Editor Clive Irving takes you along NASA's test flight of the X-48B "blended wing" aircraft. For more, read Irving's story in the November issue.
In other green flying news, Air France KLM recently signed a charter on biofuels with eight other major airlines. The charter's signatories have also announced two new research projects: The first, led by Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, concerns the jatropha curcas plant (look it up). The other, conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council, aims at ensuring that fuel produced from seaweed is compatible with the charter's commitments.
Flying is about to take a radical turn.
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