Climate change

Eurocontrol’s new approach to dealing with severe weather events in summer has contributed to a consistent improvement in punctuality since mid-July.

Move over “staycation,” the new travel industry buzzword is “coolcation.”

U.S. Energy Department’s advanced project agency launches aircraft contrail avoidance and high-energy battery projects.

Predicting contrail cirrus; Autonomy proving ground; eVTOL river crossing; Electric regional seaplane.

Enabling contrail avoidance; hybrid regional demonstrator; next-generation HAPS; and quantum computing for R&D.

As a warmer climate means more energy in the atmosphere, turbulence can be expected to grow.