Aviation growth and global warming

Report writers

This brand new report, compiled by a board of independent consultants, analyses a range of potential ways of optimising the fuel-use performance of current-generation aircraft and engines, thereby cutting the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. The main editors are Ian Lowden, Philip Butterworth-Hayes, Simon Mitchell and Rainer Vogel.

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The report seeks to answer the following questions:

  • What are the key operating improvements available to aircraft operators seeking to reduce their annual fuel consumption bill?
  • When will new aircraft, engine and other technologies become available aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions? What are these technologies?
  • What will be the impact of emission trading schemes, and other regulatory initiatives, on airline greenhouse gas emissions?
  • What is the range of current scientific opinion about the impact of aircraft operations on climate change?
  • Which are the key research programmes which will deliver reduced greenhouse gas emissions at source?
  • Which long-term proposals - for example, blended wing designs, formation flying, alternative fuels - offer the best opportunities to develop next-generation environmentally friendly aircraft?
  • Which are the key enabling technologies - and investment opportunities - which will deliver improved fuel efficiencies in the near future? And which technologies are promising more than they will deliver?

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The Very Light Jet Market 2007-2016

Report writers

The report compilation team comprises a network of European and US researchers under the direction of PMi Media editorial director, Philip Butterworth-Hayes. Much of the work on the air taxi sector and aircraft private ownership issues has been written by Simon Michell, an editor/consultant with the European air traffic management agency EUROCONTROL and a former managing editor of the Jane's Information Group aerospace and defence publication portfolio. Statistics and aircraft specification details were completed by Dean Lyons, a UK-based data manager and specialist in aerospace data compilation. Further data and review has been supplied, with thanks, by Bill Strait, Editor, Very Light Jet magazine.

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"This very comprehensive report on the very light jet market predicts the delivery of 4,124 VLJs during 2007-2016 - which added to the 30 or so delivered in 2006 will put the global VLJ fleet at 4,154 aircraft. Some industry observers critical of the manufacturer-supplied growth rate contend that only two, or at best three, manufacturers will make it to market but the authors of this report are slightly more optimistic than this. We believe, in addition to the five key programmes featured in this report (A700, Cessna Mustang, Embraer Phenom 100, Diamond D-Jet and Eclipse 500) there will be other new entrants who succeed in producing aircraft for the personal jet market, and estimates for these are listed in the HondaJet/new entrant line, with an average aircraft sales price of $2.8 million, throughout the timeframe of the study - equivalent to the HondaJet reported retail price in 2010...".

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