Source Sports champions and athletes often buy private jets on the one hand, they need to travel frequently for competitions on the other hand, their popularity makes it difficult to travel on airliners undisturbed here are six world champions’ private jets, probably the most luxurious Schumacher, considered the greatest pilot of all time, bought this Falcon … [Read more...]
Engines at the stern and T-tail: New passenger aircraft hardly look like this today. Why is that? The Comac ARJ21 is special in two ways. The regional jet is the first commercial aircraft developed in-house by China, and it has a T-tail and carries its engines at the rear. Such planes are not unusual or even exotic, and even the norm for private flights, but as a passenger you … [Read more...]
Bugs in the pipes, broken sight glasses, rusty pilots: a sea of problems for planes that fly again. Fortunately, this is not the case for private jet pilots, nor their planes, which continued to fly even during the pandemic! Authorities are asking airlines for special maintenance for the 19,000 jets parked during the pandemic before putting them into service after some … [Read more...]
Aviation and air pollution Aviation accounts for roughly 2% of worldwide CO2 emissions. But if we are to take into account its contribution to global warming, that amounts to 3.5%, because of other gases that aviation emits. Furthermore, flights increase roughly 4.6% every year, thus increasing the scope of the problem for the future, all the more because decarbonization of … [Read more...]
Gulfstream Aerospace continues to rely on sustainably produced biofuel for the operation of its own fleet. A corresponding supply contract with World Fuel Services has now been extended. Mark Burns, President of Gulfstream Aerospace, announced the contract extension during the Virtual 2020 Business Aviation Sustainability Summit. According to Gulfstream, the fuel produced … [Read more...]
