Sometimes contrails can be seen, and sometimes they can't. The reality of why this is the case is actually simpler than it ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The United States has been actively engaged and leading in all aspects of aviation, ...

Contrails form when soot and water vapor emissions from jets mix with humid, cold air. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock A cross-section of airlines, academic institutions and technology partners ...

It would be easy to assume that the commercial aviation industry's fuel consumption was its biggest impact on the environment. For example, a Boeing 737-800 burns about 5,000 pounds of fuel an hour in ...

Contrails form when soot and water vapor emissions from jets mix with humid, cold air. Photo Credit: TinaSova20/Shutterstock Delta has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study ...

GE Aerospace and NASA recently partnered on flight tests to help further the aviation industry’s understanding of contrails, using new test methods and technologies. Contrails are clouds made of ice ...

American Airlines published the first findings in a study by Google Research and Breakthrough Energy on contrail avoidance to help understand how to reduce air travel’s environmental impact this week.

FARNBOROUGH—Airbus UpNext, the aircraft maker’s technology innovation arm, plans to flight test a hydrogen-burning engine at altitude on a powered glider early next year as part of research into ...

The challenge of addressing aviation’s non-carbon dioxide emissions is receiving greater attention, with the climatic impact associated with tell-tale signs in the sky coming under increased study.

Long-lived contrails form predominantly not in cloud-free skies, but within already existing ice clouds. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, the ...