The Hemp Industry’s Potential Is Literally Sky High

Business Cheat Sheet
And that’s what truly makes the hemp plane special. Sure, it’s a rather admirable feat in its own right, but it’s also a billboard of sorts. We have talked about how a fully-legalized and regulated hemp industry could be worth billions before, and how the industry’s potential could be far beyond what anyone previously thought. The hemp plane exemplifies that perfectly.

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/the-hemp-industrys-potential-is-literally-sky-high.html/?a=viewall

Hemp May Be the Future of Flying

Outside
If all goes according to schedule, the four-seater plane—which will be made of no less than 75 percent hemp, and will run on hemp-based bio-fuel—will make its maiden flight sometime this fall or next spring from Kitty Hawk, N.C., site of the Wright Brothers’ historic take off. It’s the first part of Derek Kesek’s broader vision to help get industrial-hemp use off the ground and why he chose to make a plane rather than, say, a hemp motorcycle: It’ll get noticed.
http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/escapes/scout/Hemp-May-Be-the-Future-of-Flying.html

World’s First Hemp Plane To Take Off From Kitty Hawk

2 Paragraphs
The Hemp Plane is a four-seat, two engine aircraft that can go about 210 miles per hour. The project, developed by former organic restaurant owner Derek Kesek, is currently in the funding stage. Kesek cites Richard Branson as an inspiration. “I want to build a spaceship and be up next to Richard Branson in space with hemp,” said Kesek, who plans to take off in the Hemp Plane from the historic site of Kitty Hawk.
http://2paragraphs.com/2015/02/worlds-first-hemp-plane-to-take-off-from-kitty-hawk/

Hemp Airplane In The Works

The Weed Blog
Hemp is great for many reasons. You can eat hemp, you can make fiber out of hemp, you can build a house out of hemp materials, and it appears that you can also make an airplane out of hemp.
http://www.theweedblog.com/hemp-airplane-in-the-works/

Inhabitat's Week in Green: Wind farms, algae power and an airplane made of hemp

Inhabitat
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
 
And in aviation news, Canadian company Hempearth is building the world's first airplane made of hemp. The company hopes the plane will be ready to fly next year.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/26/inhabitats-week-in-green-wind-farms-algae-power-and-an-airpla/ 

Hemp-based Aircraft Fueled with Hemp Bio-diesel to Revolutionize the World

The Green Optimistic
Derek Kesek’s Waterloo-based company, Hempearth, came up with exactly one of these. Meet the first ever hemp aircraft, which is also powered by hemp biofuel.

The plant was selected for its ability to grow in any environment, it is sustainable and does not need additional pesticides or fertilizers to grow, just like the common garden weeds. The plane will have a significantly smaller carbon footprint than any other aircraft, and it meets all regulations set by the aviation sector.
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2014/10/22/hemp-based-aircraft-fueled-hemp-bio-diesel-revolutionize-world/#.VEh5KRbsoz4