Do We Need To Regulate Virtualisation?
The Airspace Architecture Study (AAS) provides a blueprint for removing structural inefficiencies in Europe through a process of virtualisation. However, the AAS does not consider how this process could be incentivised through economic regulation. Whilst the SES...
Got a SESAR 2020 project? Here are my top tips
In 2004, just as Think was starting, something else was born – the Single European Sky ATM Research Programme (SESAR). A few years later, in 2008, the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) was set up to manage the research and develop phases of the project. In the...
INTEGRATING COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT INTO ATM
Spaceflight is booming. Virgin Galactic and SpaceX have become household names in recent years with their impressive feats of engineering. Virgin Galactic are set to take tourists to the edges of space and SpaceX want to take us to Mars! All of this though is being...
The numbers underpinning the UK aviation industry’s climate ambitions
We’ve written recently about the climate aspects of the UK aviation industry and how we could prioritise carbon reduction as we eventually recover from the downturn. In preparing that article we noted that, at the aviation industry level, there are many figures...
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF UAM – A GREAT UNKNOWN
To anyone that has the slightest interest in the future of air mobility, even a basic google search will illustrate current excitement of 2020 being the pivotal year for eVTOLs (electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) and UAM (Urban Air Mobility). The underlying concept of enabling enhanced mobility using small aircraft have been around for quite some time now, originating with the idea of “flying cars” initially outlined in the1930s.
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