Ever since Orville Wright flew sitting in front of a 12 HP engine back in December 1903, aircraft have been powered by polluting internal combustion engines. Following on from COP 26 at Glasgow we take a look at how aviation is intending to reduce its carbon footprint in the coming years. The United Nations has stated that aviation results in 2.4 per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions which is equivalent to the combined annual CO2 emission of the world’s 129 lowest...
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In the 1960s three new tri-jet medium-range aircraft arrived on the airliner scene. First to fly in 1962 was the British de Havilland Trident which would see 117 examples built. Next up was the much more successful American Boeing 727 with the first of 1,832 examples first flying in 1963. The last of the trio was from the Soviet’s Andrei Tupolev design bureau, the Tupolev Tu-154 which first took to the sky in 1968. Production ended in 2009 with 1,026 examples seeing service....
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Today saw the first IWM Duxford flying day of 2021, which gave us the perfect opportunity to put on our own...
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