Future of Flight
From Dream To Reality: Global Airlines Are Turning To Sustainable Fuel To Reduce CO2 Emissions
At the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, more than 100 heads of state and 20,000 attendees are exploring ways to keep the planet’s temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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The Art Of The Possible: UAE’s Etihad Airways Cut CO2 Emissions By 72% On A Recent Long-Haul Flight
A routine commercial long-haul flight scored an important aviation industry milestone last week when a Boeing 787 operated by Etihad Airways flew from London to Abu Dhabi on a fuel blend containing sustainable jet fuel. The plane’s carbon emissions were 72% below those of an equivalent flight in 2019.
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Electric Sky: New NASA Partnership To Take GE’s Hybrid Electric Flight Research To New Heights
Reflecting on a recent visit to NASA, GE Aviation President and CEO John Slattery wrote this week that decarbonizing aviation was “our industry’s moonshot.” Now GE engineers and the U.S. space agency get to work on the moonshot together.
NASA awarded GE $179 million to help mature electric flight propulsion technologies today. Investments by GE and its partners will bring funding for the project to $260 million.
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Stayin’ Alive: Trusty GE Chopper Engine That Entered Service When The Bee Gees Ruled The Charts Wins New $1 Billion Lease On Life
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Air Digital: Bombardier’s Record-Breaking Luxury Jet Has The Smarts To Meet Its Price Tag
If you’re shopping for a new business jet and money’s no issue, it’s time to call Bombardier. Starting at almost $73 million, the price on the Canadian aircraft maker’s latest luxury jet, the Global 7500, is a showstopper.
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Intellectual Air: Long-Haul Qantas Flight Is A Research Lab With Wings
Late in the evening on Friday, Oct. 18, 49 passengers and crew boarded a Qantas flight in New York City. Nineteen hours and 16 minutes later they landed in Sydney. The world’s longest nonstop commercial flight had successfully concluded.
In what Qantas has dubbed Project Sunrise, the Australian airliner covered more than 10,000 miles of land and sea and crossed 15 time zones. And although pilots were flying a 787-9 Dreamliner passenger jet that can seat 236 travelers, the plane was only a third full, as this was not a regular service launch.
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Game of Planes: Microsoft and GE Are Applying Insights From Video Games To Air Travel
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Mad Props: Why GE’s New Catalyst Turboprop Engine Is Turning Heads
When you first see it, GE’s new Catalyst turboprop engine looks a little like a piece of captured alien technology. Strapped to a metal bed inside a concrete hangar on the outskirts of Prague, the gray metal machine bristles with some 500 silver cables connected to external and internal sensors.
Future of Flight
Fast And Furious: RACER, Next-Gen Helicopter Hybrid, Could Bring Cheaper, Greener, And Speedier Air Travel
The future of flight is an ever-evolving topic ranging from new supersonic passenger jets to hybrid helicopter-like aircraft that fly more like a plane.