Day two at Farnborough and already many of the manufacturers are announcing orders with more to follow. The business of the show is business, after all, and it is fascinating to walk round the trade show and realise just how many different companies are involved in the aviation industry, with all the jobs and economic [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

This Airbus A320 aircraft flew last month with a new addition. While the aircraft might not look too different from an ordinary A320 at first glance, the observant among you will notice the presence of winglets on this narrowbody jet. A320′s normally have small ‘wingtip fences’, but the winglets on this testbed aircraft are a [...]

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 [...]

The race to the White House is not the only race making news at the moment. Last week, I wrote about some of the work being done on a new type of very efficient aircraft engine by Rolls-Royce. Well, it seems that GE Aviation have teamed up with NASA to run similar tests, according to [...]

Recycling can take many forms, both process-driven – and creative. On enviro.aero, we are highlighting the ways in which the aviation industry is using technology and operational procedures to get better use out of aircraft while they are in service. There is also a lot of work being done by a number of players to [...]