Despite showing the cabin of a Challenger 3500 business jet, Bombardier’s exhibit, over all, pays its respects to the ‘green’ movement. Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images
Decorative Cardboard Wall Feature
The Bombardier booth (Z117) appears to have a church organ installed, but it is, in fact a decorative wall feature comprising multiple cardboard tubes—wholly recycled and wholly recyclable, as the adjacent plaque attests. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Sustainability Plaque
A close up of the Bombardier's plaque which pledges its commitment to using materials that are wholly recycled and wholly recyclable. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Inside Bombardier's Booth
The block flooring in Bombardier’s booth is self-regenerating, being made of cork. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Truly Sustainable - Cork
This natural material is “truly sustainable” says the nearby explanation. That’s something we can all drink to. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Bombardier Ecojet Model Concept
The next Bombardier Global? Owing a little, it seems, to blended-wing airliner studies, the ‘ecojet’ is one possibility for business travel in the coming decade. Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images
Electric Engine
Electric powered, propeller aviation is widely viewed as the future and on Booth N61, magniX is showing one of its powerplant projects, rated at 640 kW. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Carbon Offsetting
Pratt & Whitney Canada’s Carbon Offset Service (Booth K67) can compensate for an aircraft’s emissions with offset credits from South Pole—which is a globally recognized provider of environmentally sustainable solutions, not a geographical location in the Southern Hemisphere. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Garden Center
Booth 77 might be mistaken for a garden center, but the business of Primus Aero is as an independent Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Air BP
Air BP offers up to a 50/50 blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on Booth B55. SAF is produced from sustainable, renewable feedstocks and is very similar in its chemistry to fossil jet fuel, but yields a reduction in CO2 emissions. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Eviation Alice
Nothing daunted, Eviation’s Alice electric aircraft on Booth IZ07 is a model, the unflown prototype having been damaged by a battery fire over two years ago. Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
SAF Partners
On Booth D67, AvFuel partners with Neste to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Credit: Aviation Week/Lee Ann Shay
Lufthansa Technik's AeroSHARK Skin
Lufthansa Technik is promoting on Booth 55 its AeroSHARK skin—a durable bionic film that mimics that of sharks and optimizes the airflow, thereby enabling significant fuel savings. In contrast to those exhibits marked “Do not touch,” this one is labelled, “I don’t bite.” Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images
While EBACE was unsustainable for the past two years due to the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, it returns in 2022 with a strong commitment to sustainability, in the sense of protecting the environment. Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is a phrase on many a lip this week, as are carbon offsets, aerodynamic developments and electric power versus hydrogen fuel. Not content with those innovations, some exhibitors are constructing their booths out of recyclable materials, or just decorating them with green, potted plants.
