Environment
News about environmental issues relating to aircraft operations, including noise issues, emissisions, and regulations. See Fuel for biofuel.
Officials in Colorado have voted to incentivize the introduction of UL94 unleaded avgas and introduce it at Centennial Airport as soon as practical.
Olivier Andriès, CEO of Safran, warns that Europe will fall behind the U.S. if it does not heighten its SAF usage and production ambitions.
APP Jet Center at San Francisco-area Hayward Executive Airport has added UL94 unleaded avgas to its fuel offerings.
Plans for a Norwegian emergency medical service to deploy the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL are set to be among the early use cases for all-electric aircraft.
The DisruptiveLab demonstrator will slash CO2 emissions by 50 percent, says Airbus.
Helicopter operators worldwide have started to make plans to add new eVTOL aircraft into their fleets, only in some cases replacing existing rotorcraft.
The Air Company is pioneering a pathway for sustainable aviation fuel, one that uses limitless air as a feedstock.
KinectAir plans to use Electra’s nine-passenger eSTOL aircraft to develop point-to-point regional air mobility services in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Aviation must take a multi-pronged approach to reach net-zero and even then the path will be fraught with technological and practical difficulties.
Business aviation is facing increasing environmental pressures in Europe but is prevented from taking steps such as SAF use, GAMA's Bunce warns.
