For few months, the Solar Impulse made it clear: solar aircrafts are the future. The zero emission aircraft, powered by 12000 solar cells, flew during 24 hours, night and day, and gave the lead. The project aims to fly all around the world – with another prototype – but it is now focusing on making this beauty fly all around Switzerland, and showing that it [...]

Sorry for the French name/news, but the 5th “Mondial de la simulation” is coming soon, between November 26th and 28th. What is it about? Simulation! Simulation? Mostly virtual aviation, but also trains, construction, … This is taking place to the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget (close to Paris and CDG). I must admit that me and myself are [...]

I only few once aboard of a Russian manufactured aircraft – a Россия’s Ty-154M to be precise – and even if it was a pretty scary experience, I highly respect Russian aircrafts. Among those aircrafts, the Iliouchine Il-76 is beautiful. Its first flight was in 1971, more than 900 aircrafts have been produced until 2005! It’s cruising at 750 – 780 km/h, at [...]

It’s been quite a while that Airbus is thinking and talking about upgrading its A320 family. The A320 family – which includes A318, 319, 320 and 321 – is now 20 years old – the plane flew for the first time in 1987 and is operated by airlines since 1988. Even if it has been upgraded in the past, it has n’t [...]

While everyone is talking about Android on tablets – after Android on mobiles -, Android may end up in planes. The next generation of Thales’ and Panasonic’s In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) systems will run Android by 2011 –  2013. Panasonic and Thales are very important companies in that business, so it is a major step for Android in the aviation sector – [...]

When I first discovered this model, few months ago, I instantly thought it was amazing. This house, created by a German architect, Rolph Disch, is a real concept, it has been constructed. It can produce around 5 times more electricity than it actually produces. It has a huge 54 m² solar panel -on its roof – which can produce around 6,6 kWh. But [...]

Since I noticed what heat Paris Metro creates – especially when metros stop with heavy brakes usage, or even when it’s running on its track – I thought that it would be a very interesting source of energy. Well, few days ago I read some articles which exposed a project, in Paris Metro, to use the warmth generated in our subway to [...]

I absolutely hate band-aids. Being a lady, I usually end up wearing some non-sensical apparatus on my feet. Consequently, by the end of the night, I wimper and hope that what were blisters didn’t start to bleed yet. Usually putting a band-aid on the booboo never fixes it as a new pair of shoes just goes on a podological rampage. [...]

M. and I really like to talk about Haussman and Napoléon. I’m quite sure everyone knows Napoléon, but Georges Eugène Haussman is not that famous – especially out of France. Georges Eugène Haussman was born in 1809, He has been prefect of  Seine – of Paris – in 1853, during Napoléon III’s reign, the French ruler of that time – who re-established [...]

Here in France, We just got what We called the “Grenelle 2″ and the RT2012 (Technical Rules for construction 2012) which determined what would be next in France’s laws about the way We will have to build. Basically, it positioned the Low consumption building (“BBC” in in French) as the new norm. It only applies to new buildings. Every new building has [...]