The Archive
Perspectives on aviation’s transformation, 2018–2019.
Thirteen essays published during a period of accelerating change in aviation, covering emerging aerospace technologies, sustainability, regulation, energy transition and the changing relationship between aviation and society. They are preserved here substantially as originally published.
- 30 August 2018Life In The Slow LaneTechnology adoption, emerging air mobility and social licence.
- 6 September 2018Here Today, Gone TomorrowAviation, technology and the pace of change.
- 12 September 2018CORSIA – The Magic Carpet RideInternational regulation, carbon markets and policy risk.
- 17 September 2018Magic Carpet Ride – Follow UpA follow-up to the original CORSIA article.
- 16 August 2019Supersonics? “Not So Fast”, Some SaySupersonic ambition and the case made against it.
- 23 August 2019Silent Supersonic Jets? Hold My Beer…Sonic boom, noise and the engineering response.
- 30 August 2019Supersonic Flight: An Existential Threat?Aerospace innovation, environmental performance and decision-making under uncertainty.
- 6 September 2019Renewable Jet Fuels: Here To StayRenewable fuels and the aviation energy transition.
- 13 September 2019It’s Jet Fuel, But Not As We Know ItAlternative aviation fuels, biotechnology and synthetic/PtL fuels.
- 20 September 2019Beyond Flight ShameAviation’s social licence and changing political expectations.
- 27 September 2019Aviation In Transition: Net-ZeroThe economics and technological pathways of aviation decarbonisation.
- 4 October 2019Net-Zero Aviation, But Not At All CostThe cost and trade-offs of decarbonisation pathways.
- 11 October 2019Aviation’s Overton WindowHow changing political boundaries affect aviation strategy and policy.