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With severe injuries from turbulence on a recent Singapore Airlines flight, questions abound over why airplanes encounter this phenomenon and whether climate change really will make it worse.
Air travel is safer than you might think, despite the publicity surrounding the recent Singapore Airlines incident. Here’s what’s going on to distort your perception of risk.
The American aerospace company Boeing has been synonymous with safe air travel for decades, but recent weeks have seen it plagued by a series of issues.
Unions are arcing up about cabin crew being filmed without consent during flights. Some airlines have brought in new rules aimed at curbing the practice.
Lingering on the tarmac once you get off a plane through the rear door is unadvisable for many reasons – here’s why the staff want your phone in your pocket.
Unlike our toilets at home, plane toilets have to ‘suck’ the waste with a vacuum system. But don’t worry, it doesn’t get released into the air.
No, you’re not imagining it. Your body does some weird things up in the air. Here’s a guide to the common and merely embarrassing to the rare, but serious.
When something disrupts the smooth, laminar flow of high-altitude winds, your flight might get a little bumpy.
Is it true our phones are dangerous for aircraft navigation? An expert explains.
All up, your risk of catching COVID on a flight is very low. But there are things you can do to lower that risk even further.
Commercial flights could one day be propelled by sustainable fuels, renewable energy or hydrogen propulsion – but big challenges remain.
Reducing jet fuel consumption by 2.5% each year could halt aviation’s growing influence on climate change.
Soot from aeroplane exhausts can linger in the atmosphere, seeding ice clouds which trap heat.
Millicent Bryant made her first solo flight at the age of 49 in 1927. The life of this bold, unconventional woman was tragically cut short in a ferry disaster that same year.
Almost two years after crashing twice within five months and being pulled out of service, the Boeing 737 Max’s return to the skies has now been approved.
Aircraft cabins have been germ hotspots since long before this pandemic. More ‘microbiology literacy’ is needed among the general public for this to improve.
More than one million weather observations were made by aircraft each day in 2019. Since the pandemic started, these have dropped by 90%.
All modes of high-speed travel come with a cost to the environment.
Weaker winds and higher temperatures are making airlines less efficient.
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Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Cardiff University
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Director of the Civil Safety and Security Unit (CSSU), University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University
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Director of Transport Systems, Professor of Safety & Accident Investigation, Cranfield University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor in Applied Fluid Mechanics and Director, Institute for Aerospace Technology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham
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