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Air Canada and United Airlines both have orders for hybrid electric 30-seaters. An aerospace engineer explains where electrification, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels are headed.
The radio frequency at which 5G operates in the US is close to that of an important piece of aircraft equipment, called radio altimeters.
Reducing jet fuel consumption by 2.5% each year could halt aviation’s growing influence on climate change.
When planes fly from east to west, they are flying against a river of air called a jet stream. These air currents can make your flight longer or shorter, depending on which way you are going.
Carbon offsetting is better regulated than it once was, but it’s no solution to the climate crisis.
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.
Since 2019, night train networks have seen a remarkable revival across Europe.
As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
The use of big data by companies, even when perfectly legal, can harm people.
The day and a half it takes to get from New York to Singapore and back offers plenty of time to ponder the economics of ultra-long-haul flights – and wonder why we’d want to make it any longer.
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’.
How far would you go to limit your carbon footprint?
Flying plays havoc with people’s ears. But it’s a lot worse if your cabin suddenly loses pressure.
With little hope of finding alternatives to jet fuel, we need to seriously consider a world without flying.
Without a human operator on board, how can a drone steer clear of collisions? Technology from autonomous cars can help.
Qantas’s new non-stop route from Perth to London might be a watershed for travel times between Australia and Europe. But super-long-haul routes won’t do much to cut aviation’s greenhouse emissions.
Long awaited changes to the regulations on some drone flights in Australia are set to give the industry a shake up.
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University
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Executive Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Surrey Business School, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Transport Governance, University of Leeds
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PhD researcher, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, University of Manchester
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Professor of Tourism, University of Otago
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Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor, Purdue University
