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How Contrails Are Aviation’s Biggest Threat to the Environment
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 2,268 kg of fuel an hour in the sky. However, research shows that persistent contrails play a much larger role. An eight-year-long study found that contrails created 57…
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Why Did This Company Let Me Fly A $2.7 Million Aircraft?
Somewhere over the Hamptons, the pilot told me to take the controls. To my left, there was a joystick, roughly the same size and dimension as my favourite ’90s arcade game, After Burner. I clutched it, pulled back, and felt the jet climb.
