Plane Talking
Tag: Innovation
Plane Talking weekly wrap-up blog
‘Research and Markets’ have provided us with some uplifting news this week, announcing the release of their new ‘Airports go green’ report. As we’ve noted in recent weeks, airports have made significant contributions in fighting climate change by adopting numerous strategies to limit their emissions. ‘Airports go green’ is dishing out some well-deserved praise to [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under Airports, carbon emissions, efficiency, environment, innovation, technology.
Tags: airports, carbonemissions, efficiency, environment, Innovation, technology
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Weekly blog wrap-up
In the news this week airports have shown positive improvements as they make their own contributions to lowering carbon emissions. Sky Harbor International Airport, Pheonix, has announced plans to lower their carbon footprint by converting airport-based vehicles to alternate fuels and building a $1.1 billion automated train that aims to take thousands of cars off [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2009 under Airports, aviation, carbon emissions, innovation, Sustainable biofuel, technology.
Tags: airports, aviation, carbonemissions, Innovation, Sustainable biofuel, technology
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New tools, new techniques. Developed together.
Today, we have news of a number of different projects underway encompassing many parts of the aviation industry, across a number of countries. I decided to put them all into one post, because this really illustrates the coordinated and cooperative nature of aviation – we work best when we work together, both on a day-to-day [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under air traffic management, cooperation, innovation, Research, technology.
Tags: "Boeing Phantom Works", "Pratt & Whitney", Air New Zealand, cooperation, Innovation, NASA, Qantas, research, technology, United Airlines
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Pacific aviation ‘aspires’ to cut emissions
Last Friday was a busy day for my colleagues in New Zealand and on the West Coast of the USA, as the first-ever ASPIRE flight took off. ASPIRE stands for Asia and South Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions, and the primary actors are the ANSPs Airways New Zealand, Air Services Australia, and the Federal Aviation [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2008 under air traffic management, cooperation, efficiency.
Tags: Air New Zealand, ASPIRE, Auckland Airport, aviation, Climate Change, Continuous Descent Approach, Fuel Efficiency, Innovation, Naviation, Qantas, San Francisco, United Airlines
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