European green initiatives still a red-hot aviation topic
Various “planet friendly” initiatives have emerged in Europe over the past few years as the aerospace industry reacts to the environmental challenge, which

Various “planet friendly” initiatives have emerged in Europe over the past few years as the aerospace industry reacts to the environmental challenge, which has now moved center stage. As the aerospace world converged on Paris it seems like every topic has a green backdrop. The recent annual conference of the Royal Aeronautical Society in London provided a timely summary of the work being done, as Ian Sheppard reports.

It was at the Paris Air Show in 2001 that the so-called “Group of Personalities” from Europe’s aerospace industry launched ACARE (the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe). ACARE set a strategic research agenda to give a roadmap for aeronautical technology developments, and has led to the establishment of two very large initiatives for air traffic management research: Clean Sky and SESAR.