Plastic Power: Jeremy Rowsell Flying From Sydney To London Using Household Trash As Fuel
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Move over Flight of the Bumblebee. Hello Flight of the Butter Tubs.That’s what you could call the daring 12,000 mile journey that Australian pilot Jeremy Rowsell is planning for early next year, when he will fly a single engine plane from Sydney to London on fuel that’s neither gasoline, kerosene nor any other traditional aircraft propellant.Oh, it must be aviation biofuel? Or perhaps it’s some of that discarded cooking oil that has given lift to a few recent aerial stunts?Wrong! read more