#green flight

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chibi dragon commission! lovely Nym with lovely jewels 🌿 2021

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chibi dragon commission! gorgeous green lady Hypnothra 🌸 2020

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Cleaner flights

Solar Impulse 2 leads the way for cleaner flights in the future, and i am so pleased with what is currently going on. We are at the irst generation of solar aircrafts, and that's great. They hope that the plane will be able to provide new forms of cleaner, low-carbon air travel. Hybrid engines — which are gaining popularity in cars — combine a battery and a petrol engine. Doing so uses 30 per cent less fuel than a plane with a petrol-only engine. The petrol engine works with the battery-powered one at take-off and climb, when the plane needs extra power, but the electric motor can then switch into generator mode and recharges the batteries, or help the motor in minimising fuel consumption. The same technology is used in hybrid cars. “Although hybrid cars have been available for more than a decade, what’s been holding back the development of hybrid or fully-electric aircraft until now is battery technology,” said Dr Paul Robertson of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, who led the project. “Until recently, they have been too heavy and didn’t have enough energy capacity. But with the advent of improved lithium-polymer batteries, similar to what you’d find in a laptop computer, hybrid aircraft – albeit at a small scale – are now starting to become viable.” The technology is still far from able to be put on commercial airliners, but the move is an important step, researchers said. The test flights took place at Sywell Aerodrome near Northampton. The plane did a series of small hopes along the runway before taking off for evaluation flights at over 1,500 feet. Aviation is thought to be responsible for about 2 per cent of man-made carbon emissions.

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Attention lore nerds

Red, blue, black, bronze ... and of course, tons of variants/derivatives. Is there a reason for no green-flight drake mount in the game (yet)?

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Identity : White Black and Green Flight!

Well, that was that and we all took off for the summer and promised to hang out from time to time like we did every summer. But, there was something drastically different about that summer. White Flight It seemed like all of the non Black people in the University District including my non Black friends were moving to the suburbs. Jordy, Jeremy, Michele, Hugh were gone by mid summer. “White folks getting the hell out of dodge is what the grown ups were saying." “Too many Niggers around here now." What does that mean? If I asked any Black person older than me there was a common response. “White people are prejudice and don’t like Black people." That reason never vibed well with me. The Daniels were White and they treated me like a son. The Silversteins and the Shumans showed me nothing but love. How can they not like Black people? I’d ask in rebuttel and in defense of my White friends. “Oh, they won’t show it openly but they really don’t like Black people." That’s some bullshit I’d think but would not say. Black flight I was so excited to meet up with my friends on the first day of school at Hampton Jr. High. I was truely dissipointed that my friend Richie was not going to Hampton Jr. and that I would have to walk to school by myself. Richies parents decided that he would go to the Jesuit school around the corner for Jr. High. Oh well. Off to school I went. My assigned seat in my homeroom class was directly in front of a well known bully named Keith. He beat up my friend David and he beat up my friend Damon. I was not afraid of Keith but I really did not like him or any of his bullying friends. More devistating than having to spend most of my day with Keith at Hampton Jr. High was the realization that none of my Hampton crew enrolled at Hampton Jr. High. I was alone.

Green Flight I was the only member of the Hampton crew besides Dawn that did not go to a private junior high school. This was Black flight. In reality White flight and Black flight was Green Flight. Those with money left and those who didn’t have the money to leave were trying to get themselves and thier kids out of Detroit’s ever increasing negitive and violent atmophere and culture. Media called in White flight because their were more Whites leaving then Blacks. However, that is because there are more Whites than Blacks. Blacks only make up about 12 % of the country and at that time probably only made up 35% of the University District.