I arrived at Indianapolis International Airport (IND) at 7:25 this morning to begin an 8:20 journey to Austin-Bergstrom (AUS). The departing flight, which was due to arrive at Memphis at 8:45 (thanks to a timezone jump) was meant to bring me to a connecting flight that took off at 9:25. Which isn’t really enough time [...]

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If you were watching airplanes take off from Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston today, you probably wouldn’t notice anything odd about Continental Flight No. 9990. But during its planned two-hour flight, the aircraft will be burning a fuel made of algae and jatropha, a plant that grows in arid lands.
A-1, this is good news because [...]

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