Images of aircraft guzzling fuel, spewing carbon out of their engines and wasteful use of resources are things of the past. Today, even the simplest things such as ticketless travel, recycling of materials and latest aircraft technology using composite materials all attest to the great strides made. Just one example: South African Airways recently introduced the A350 – which uses around half of the fuel of the previous A340 aircraft – on their Johannesburg-New York service; two engines really are better than four!
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Air
John Grant
5 February 2020
The latest pledge from the UK’s Sustainable Aviation coalition reflects just how seriously the wider aviation industry is taking the whole issue of carbon emissions and the need to reach a zero position as soon possible. But, let’s not forget the industry has actually been working on this objective for many years and had made significant progress in so many ways over the last couple of decades.
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