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Your next flight could be the single biggest contribution to global warming you make all year. Experts imagine how we might travel in future, without the ‘flygskam’.
Artist Albert Robida imagined in 1882 how air travel might look in future.
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More than a century since humans learned to fly, we need to revolutionise how we stay up there.
Our research showed that inflight magazines offered travellers health advice on everything from dehydration to swollen ankles, but hardly anything on avoiding catching and spreading infectious diseases.
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Washing hands and coughing into your elbow can help limit the spread of infectious diseases on planes and around the globe. So why don’t passengers read about this in their inflight magazines?
‘Taxi for Flybmi.’
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Flybmi’s unravelling is the latest in a long line of airlines that have got stuck on the runway.
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Data from hydrophones in the Indian ocean has raised new questions about what happened to MH370.
Perth air traffic control tower. As a pilot flies towards the destination, the air traffic control tower sends an interrogation signal. The aircraft automatically responds with a series of short pulses that let air traffic control know the identity of the plane and its altitude.
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Secondary radar is an important tool in the control of aircraft traffic, and helps make air travel safe. It was developed during dangerous times.
Unleashing hell.
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Scientists studying the atmosphere found help in an unlikely place – the aerial bombing campaigns of World War Two.
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You have to be smart and fast to be a fighter pilot – but perhaps the most surprising challenge is the clothes you have to wear.
Just one?
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The UK’s alcohol problems aren’t limited to high streets – so why are airports allowed to flout the rules?
For many, the job of a pilot has lost its luster.
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Over the last three decades, the number of US pilots has decreased by 30 percent. That problem is only going to get worse as demand increases.
Aeroplan’s recent survey on consumer habits became a scandal for the company after people complained the questions normalized intolerant attitudes about immigration and male dominance over women.
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The recent Aeroplan survey offended many consumers with questions they felt normalized intolerant views. But consumer research has a long history of learning about customers’ values.
A woman walks past a Mahindra e2o electric car during a media preview in Bengaluru.
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There is a rapid shift in production of electric cars all over the world. But how will it benefit ordinary people?
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Every December Australia’s air travel peaks, as we travel to family and friends (or flee on holiday). Many buy carbon offsets for these flights – but what do they actually do to our carbon emissions?
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And will the aviation sector implement vital lessons learned from Icelandic disruption in 2010?
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Pilots are carefully trained to handle any crisis – but what happens when they are no longer fit mid-flight?
Keeping its distance.
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It’s not as dangerous as you might think.
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On the trail of the men of Britain’s Royal Aircraft Factory, who gave their lives to help create the world’s first air force.
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Sophisticated systems keep planes in bubbles of safety.
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The recent film Sully reveals just what pilots are facing in a disaster situation.
Cancelled flights might be your worst nightmare, but imagine a world with no flights.
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With little hope of finding alternatives to jet fuel, we need to seriously consider a world without flying.