Sustainability

By Tony Osborne
Helicopter operations are a small fraction of global annual aviation fuel usage, but the industry wants to join aviation’s green efforts.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Sonoma airport that serves business aviation adds solar power.
Sustainability

By Graham Warwick
Enabling existing refinery infrastructure to be used for production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is an important avenue to accelerating the availability of low-carbon fuels for aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson on Feb. 23 unveiled an industry-government initiative to eliminate the use of unleaded aviation fuel (avgas) by piston-engined a
Sustainability

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Swiss International Air Lines will be the first passenger airline to install AeroSHARK surface technology on its fleet.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
An A380 will flight-test a hydrogen-burning turbine engine by the end of 2026 under a collaboration between Airbus and CFM International partners GE Aviation and Safran.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Efforts to increase the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Asia are gathering pace.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen-powered aviation is started with smaller regional aircraft, but how far can it go in decarbonizing commercial aviation?
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
The FAA is spearheading an environmental review of SpaceX’s Boca Chica Beach spaceport in Texas.
Space

By Graham Warwick
USA BioEnergy has selected Bon Weir, Texas, as the location for its first biorefinery producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel from wood waste.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Virgin Group has formed a strategic partnership with chemical recycling company Agilyx to build a plant in the U.S. to convert plastic waste into synthetic crude oil than will then be refined into lower-carbon fuels including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for use by Virgin Atlantic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Ann Shay
The center is part of OEM’s global aftermarket expansion.
Business Aviation

By Chen Chuanren
In a pilot program, all Singapore Airlines (SIA) group flights will begin using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) starting in the 2022 third quarter (Q3).
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
In a move that will significantly expand the production of sustainable fuels in the U.S., LanzaJet has entered into an agreement to build a 120 million gal.-a-year facility southwest of Chicago.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Boeing has begun routine use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in its commercial-aircraft flight operations, with Epic Fuels to supply 2 million gal. of blended fuel for its Washington state and South Carolina operations through 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has agreed to take 2.5 million liters (660,000 gal.) of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste, marking the airline’s first commercial SAF commitment.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
As Europe seeks to finalize emissions reduction measures for the aviation industry that will contribute to the region’s overarching environmental goals, ambitions for use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) from numerous stakeholders are increasingly in focus.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Aaron Karp
The air cargo industry needs to ramp up digitalization, but it’s a slow path.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen powertrain iron bird; sea-skimming electric seagliders; UK space sustainability projects; ski resort eSTOL; SAF from microalgae.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
After Denmark’s Prime Minister in January set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, a massive Danish project to produce sustainable fuels from renewable energy is investigating whether it can begin jet fuel production in 2025, two years earlier than planned.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
To celebrate the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xiamen Air mounted what it calls its first carbon neutral flight on its Xiamen to Beijing service.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
The EU’s transport ministers have issued a declaration that they hope sets the stage for a long-term aspirational goal on aviation sustainability to be adopted at the ICAO Assembly in September.
Sustainability

By Graham Warwick
Istanbul’s Bogazici University has inaugurated what is claimed to be Turkey’s, and Europe’s, first carbon-negative biorefinery, designed to produce a range of algae-based biotech products including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Ministers from seven European countries have written to the European Commission (EC) calling for more ambition on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) targets, including allowing member states to set their own targets on top of an EU-wide minimum.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
An ATR 72-600 prototype performed a series of ground and flight tests with one of its turboprop engines running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Aircraft & Propulsion