Battery-powered plastic aircraft without flight decks - could that be the clean, green future of flight?
The political furore over the Airports Commission's recommendation to expand Heathrow has obscured a more profound debate about aviation's weakest flank: the environment.
A third runway would increase flights at Europe's busiest airport from 1,300 to 2,000 a day. But the commission's final report acknowledges the high carbon cost of air travel. "Flying one passenger from London to New York and back generates roughly the same level of CO2 emissions as the average person in the EU does by heating their home for a whole year," it mentioned.
06/07/15 Simon Calder/The Times Of India
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The political furore over the Airports Commission's recommendation to expand Heathrow has obscured a more profound debate about aviation's weakest flank: the environment.
A third runway would increase flights at Europe's busiest airport from 1,300 to 2,000 a day. But the commission's final report acknowledges the high carbon cost of air travel. "Flying one passenger from London to New York and back generates roughly the same level of CO2 emissions as the average person in the EU does by heating their home for a whole year," it mentioned.
06/07/15 Simon Calder/The Times Of India
