• Question: how can we speed up air travel around the world?

    Asked by PwgllothDestroyerOfWales to Agata, Chris, John, Kirstin, Michael on 21 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: John Allport

      John Allport answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      It’s easy enough to speed up air travel, just not efficient. Concorde flew much faster than current planes in the 1980s, but used about 10 times as much fuel per passenger mile as the new Airbus 380 or Boeing 787. We had to compromise, so balanced out speed of travel vs greenhouse gas emissions.

    • Photo: Chris Hackett

      Chris Hackett answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      yea if we want to be more efficient and quicker we need new fresh ideas, like the hyperloop idea which hopefully one day will be made into a reality.

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