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How many passengers flew on More the 2.2 billion passengers flew on the world’s airlines for vacation
the world’s airlines and why? and business travel.

By what third of the value of third of the value of the worlds manufactured exports were transported by
the worlds manufactured air.
exports transported?

How many jobs aviation

industry generates in aviation industry generates 32 million jobs worldwide.
worldwide?

air transportation It has a big economic footprint.

The first demonstrated flight It takes place on June 4, 1783

Sir George Cayley became the first person to successfully create a human
In the 1800’s carrying glider.

What Sir George Cayley explain the aerodynamic forces of flight weight, lift, drag and thrust and
responsible for? their relationship.

When was the first sustained

and controlled “heavier than On December 17, 1903
air” powered flight took place?

Whit what the first sustained

and controlled “heavier than It took place with the Wright brothers.
air” powered flight took place?

What happen in 1907? development work began on the Gnome rotary aero engine.

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What happen in 1908? the first Gnome rotary aero engine is produced.

the United States government bought its first airplane (Wright Model A)
What happen in August 1909? for $30,000.

What happen in 1912? the first all metal aeroplane was flown by a French man.

What happen in 1913? the first flight to reach an altitude of 20,000 feet was flown.

jet propulsion, aerodynamics, radar technology catapulted the aviation

What happen to aircrafts After industry, which made aircraft larger, faster and featured pressurized
World War II? cabins.

It says, “Air travel is also on the rise, with GHG emissions from
GLOBE-Net (2007) reports international air travel jumping by almost 70% between 1990 and 2002.”

Travel in china It is growing by around 12% per year.

Increasing- worldwide
passenger air travel worldwide passenger air travel is increasing by 5% annually.

It is very competitive. About 15,000 aircraft service nearly 10,000

commercial sector of the airline airports and operate over routes approximately 15 million km in total
industry. length.

aviation industry generates 32 million jobs worldwide and contributes

aviation industry generation nearly 8% to world gross domestic product (IATA, 2008).

The fastest growing source of

greenhouse gases Air Travel.
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Solar Cells Converting sunlight into electricity.

Convert hydrogen into heat & electricity without combustion, reducing

Fuel Cells the need for conventional fuels and eliminating emissions.

Boeing, Virgin Atlantic and GE Aviation conducted the first commercial

flight using a biofuel mix with traditional kerosene-based fuel in February
Advanced-Generation Biofuels 2008.

investigation by the aviation Second-generation biofuels, solar power and fuel cells are all being
industry investigated by the aviation industry as well as the automobile industry.

airplane CO2 emissions have been reduced by around 70% and the noise
last 40 years levels have been reduced by approximately 90 percent.

Example of integrating The noise footprint of the new 787 Dreamliner is 60% lower than any
environmental performance similar aircraft (Boeing 1998-2007; pg. 14).
improvements

research is a core tenet of Airbus' eco-efficiency initiatives (Airbus,

Alternative fuel 2008).

Airbus research lead to test flights using gas to liquid kerosene.

Example of airlines have flight Virgin Atlantic (in February 2008), Air New Zealand (in December
tested on biofuel 2008), Continental Airlines and Japan Airlines (in January 2009).

“the push in development of biofuels continues with a recent $25 million

contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to
Pew (2009) reports SAIC.

lower flight speeds, reducing idling and other efficiencies, searching for
Better Traffic Management areas of potential emissions reductions.

main areas to help reduce  Strengthen the global leadership strategy.

aviation emissions.  Increase Alternative Fuel technology/implementation.
  improvements in Aircraft Technology Efficiency.
 Improvements in Air Traffic Management.
 Improvements in Operational Efficiencies.
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