Delegates here could be forgiven for getting cabin fever – between the delegate-filled hotels, the delegate-filled buses and the security cordon zone, we are surrounded by climate policy geeks. It is good to remember there is a world of stuff happening outside this army / police / navy controlled security zone, especially when there doesn’t [...]

Mothers are always reminding their children to wash behind their ears… perhaps airline CEOs should be reminding their mainanance teams to wash out their engines, if the results of Southwest Airlines’ engine washing programme are anything to go by. The airline contracted Pratt & Whitney to conduct more frequent engine washes on its jets. These [...]

Call us geeks, planespotters or nerds, but sometimes we do get excited about things that you’d be hard-pressed getting anyone else excited about. Take, for example, the Pratt & Whitney ‘geared turbofan’. This brand new aircraft engine – being called the PurePower PW1000G – has been undergoing testing, first on a Boeing 747 and most [...]

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 [...]

Interesting news in today’s Guardian, as Rolls-Royce give us a glimpse of the work underway on the next generation of turboprop aircraft engines. They will reportedly be up to 30% more fuel-efficient than current jet aircraft powerplants and, importantly, just as quiet. Behind the scenes, work is believed to be underway from Pratt & Whitney, [...]