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EnviroTREC holds AGM 2022
After going through two years of pandemic protocols and COVID-19 regimes for convening a Board Meeting and AGM for an international organization, our Board finally met in person on September 14th for its 2022 gathering. The 2022 EnviroTREC Board Meeting and AGM were...
Open Rotor Engine makes its debut at Farnborough
The Farnborough air show highlighted a few new innovations this year. One of the exciting innovations that was announced was the Open Rotor Engine.
Predictions on the future of Green Aviation from Rolls-Royce
The first transatlantic flight powered solely by sustainable aviation fuel is likely to happen as soon as next year
New Engine Architectures, Part 2 from the IATA Technology Roadmap
Counter-rotating fans are positioned in the front of jet engines and spin in opposite directions to each other
SAF And Its Role in Aerospace
This web story covers just what is Sustainable Aviation Fuel, how it will be made and how it will be used in aviation?
IATA Technology Road Map: New Engine Architecture Concepts 2020 – 2025
The principal source of fuel efficiencies in the years 2020 – 2025 is proposed to come from new engine architecture, which is resolved by improving the Ultra-High Bypass Ratio
Ammonia as a fuel for jet aircraft
In our pursuit of exciting stories about Green Aviation, we found two interesting stories that pointed in the same direction – that of using ammonia to fuel jet engines.
ATI’s concept piece for a hydrogen-powered aircraft
The FlyZero project, which is led by the Aerospace Technology Institute and is funded by the UK government, has come up with a concept for a liquid hydrogen-powered midsize aircraft. The aircraft is based on the Boeing 767 class design, which has a 54-meter wingspan...
Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Test-bed (HEAT) – at the National Research Council
The NRC announced in early 2021 that their Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Test-bed (HEAT) had successfully taken to the air! The following picture is a presentation of their HEAT project. Figure 1: HEAT being prepared for a test flight! Source: NRC Canada A critical...
Future Technologies – Retrofits and Upgrades to support the Aircraft Technology Road Map
This web story is a continuation of our series on the IATA Technology Road Map. Here we will cover how the aerospace industry proposes to improve efficiencies using retrofits and upgrades. Aircraft entering service from now to 2030 will have the same overall...