HEMPEARTH – What Is the Aviation Industry?
The term ‘aviation’ is most commonly used to describe mechanical air transportation, which is carried out using an aircraft. The two main aircraft types are airplanes and helicopters, but most modern definitions of the word ‘aviation’ extend beyond this to include unmanned aircraft, such as drones.
With this in mind, the aviation industry can be described as all the industries that surround these activities.
Why Is the Aviation Industry Important?
One of the main reasons for this importance is the globalized nature of the industry, helping to connect different continents, countries, and cultures. As a result, global aviation has been key in facilitating efficient travel to distant places, enriching many lives in the process.
The aviation industry has also been a key contributor to global economic prosperity, not only because the tourism industry boosts local economies but also because it has allowed for improvements to global trade.
Meanwhile, the aviation industry also directly provides millions of jobs for people around the world, with examples including everything from pilots and cabin crew to air traffic controllers and aerospace engineers. On top of this, the aviation industry has helped to create many jobs in the wider travel and tourism industry too.
The Use of Organic Materials On Aviation Composites
Most composites currently available are made using non-degradable polymeric resins, such as epoxy, vinylester and phenolic, and high-strength fibers, such as carbon, aramid, and glass. Many of these polymers and fibers are derived from petroleum, a non renewable resource. With increasing number of applications and mass volume uses, disposal of composites after their intended life is becoming critical, as well as expensive. Most composites still end up in landfills, while some are incinerated after use, although there are some efforts to recycle and/or reuse them. Both these disposal alternatives are expensive and wasteful, and can contribute to pollution.
Recent concerns about the preservation of environment and recycling have led to renewed interest for eco-friendly materials as, for instance, composites based on natural fibers. The application of such composites is rapidly increasing, especially for problems related to waste disposal and recycling of synthetic fiber reinforced composites. These issues justify the search for more environmentally compatible alternatives.
Derek Kesek And His Revolutionary Mind
Founder of a well known lifestyle company brand based on natural resources and plants, also a Health and Business Consultant, and Skilled Guitar Player, featured in USA Today, High Times Magazine, The Toronto Star and publications worldwide. Derek Kesek’s purpose is to develop sustainable, eco-friendly solutions and other natural resources that provide a positive impact on earth and humanity and also to share my skills with others.
I am a driving force in the utilization of eco materials, and eco products into industry, as well as an inspiration and an information source for others.
— Derek Kesek
How It Started?
One day Derek Kesek let his mind wander, contemplating the infinite possibilities of hemp-based innovation. That’s when it occurred to him: while people have come up with some 25,000 uses for the herb, no one has yet built an airplane out of it and operate it on hemp fuel. So, what the heck, he resolved build the plane rather than let it become a pipe dream.
It wasn’t long before he signed a contract with a manufacturer in Florida to build a double engine, four-seater kit aircraft made seventy-five percent of hemp products shipped in from Canada where legalized hemp agriculture has been a thing since the late 90s.
Not a Just A “Pipe Dream” : The Worlds First Hemp Plane
From wingtip to wingtip, the plane spans only 36 feet, but can easily fit five individuals including a pilot and four passengers thanks to the durability of the hemp-fiber body and the lack of bulk found in commercial planes made from metal.
“In addition to being one of the world’s healthiest, and most versatile plants on earth, hemp is pound for pound 10 times stronger than steel,” explained Hempearth on its website.
“This means that it can withstand a lot more weight before and breaks, and it can bend way further than metal. Great for Aviation.”
Derek Kesek – the Founder of Hempearth – also thinks that composite hemp fibers could possibly replace the use of fiberglass when building smaller planes similar to his, which could also mean more sustainable aircraft construction considering that cannabis – the plant from which hemp is derived – is extremely easy to grow (it requires less water and land compared to cotton) and is considered nutritious to the soil its planted in.
Also pretty interesting is the fact that the plane will supposedly run completely on cannabis oil, which will be cleaner than power derived from fossil fuels and adds to the eco-friendly factor of the plane. Just how efficient hemp oil will prove as fuel still remains to be seen, however.
Obviously, the plane itself – though created from cannabis-derived materials – contains no any psychoactive substances. This is because the hemp plant itself doesn’t contain any THC – the ingredient that gives some cannabis variants the ability to make consumers “high”.
Still, Kesek thinks that his plane has all the ingredients to take off, and hopes that the plane will be able to soon make its first flight from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina – the spot where the Wright brothers successfully managed the world’s first-ever flight.
Despite the stigma placed on cannabis as a source of “drugs” and other “bad things”, the use of hemp in the creation of greener construction materials with better tensile properties may be something to look out for in the near future. And should Hempearth’s cannabis plane realize its ambitions, it could possibly become a proof of concept for things to come.
Already, the aviation industry is one of the leading contributors when it comes leaving massive carbon footprints, so why not a plane that does things differently, no matter how eyebrow-raising it may seem at first.
HEMPEARTH’s Hemp Plane is being built using an existing design. Doing this helps to cut costs by eliminating the timely and expensive prototype phase. Utilizing a model that already works is assuring that the Hemp Plane takes to the skies with 100% success. Everything on the plane, that is usually made from fiberglass and other non-sustainable materials are being replaced with 100% HEMP . Our Hemp Plane and other eco, green and sustainable products are always built with over 65 to 75% Hemp or more and we are always working towards doing more. Hempearth has been developing its own 100% HEMP Fiber aviation composites over the last couple of years with a Montreal and Australian company. These Hempearth Hemp aviation composites are un like anything ever being produced on the planet, and shall revolutionize the way many things are constructed including, aircraft, boats, cars.
