Previously unknown issues in airliner operations in severe cold in the upper atmosphere are cited by the FAA in the US in serving notice of compulsory design changes to Rolls-Royce powered versions of the Boeing 777-200ER jet overnight.
While there are no RR engined 777s in service with Australian carriers the directive is interesting in [...]
Tag Archives: greenhouse gases
Did global warming chill out two jets and lead to compulsory engine modifications?
July 25, 2009 – 11:23 am
Home grown aircraft composites could also cut fossilised carbon emissions
June 20, 2009 – 10:03 am
A concept for turning matter from a single type of plant into a high performance composite material for use in aircraft cabins has won a University of Queensland team first prize in the inaugural Airbus Fly Your Ideas challenge.
It is an idea which minimises the use of energy from fossil carbon releasing fuels in the [...]
UK govt robs Qantas to ‘pay’ Emirates
November 26, 2008 – 2:24 pm
The doctrinaire, dare I suggest dishonest, approach of the UK government to adding taxes to air travel to ’save the environment’ comes with some bizarre consequences.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has announced a set of Air Passenger Duty charges which rise according to the distance a jet flies from London which would add £85, [...]
Flying ourselves into extinction?
November 25, 2008 – 12:58 pm
Is our taste (make that former taste given the state of the economy) for cheap flights flying our species into extinction? Or is the demonisation of air travel just another shallow exercise in do-gooder social engineering by those who think this will save them from the dreaded middle seat on full flights?
An interesting discussion began [...]
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