GREEN FLIGHT SHAPING FURTURE
Much of Airbus' success was owed to increasing calls for less-emission, lower-cost and greener aircraft, making the European aircraft maker's eco-efficient A320neo Family a popular catch.
With new engines that could save 15 percent in fuel cost, A320neo aircraft earned Airbus unprecedented commitments with a total worth of some 60.9 billion U.S. dollars during the show.
Airbus had expected market demands for the aircraft, to be available in 2015, to amount to 4,000 in the next 15 years.
With requirements of fuel efficiency and environmental protection shaping the future development of global aerospace industry, alternatively fueled planes took the upwards trend at the Show.
The first biofuel-powered transatlantic flight was done by business jet Gulfstream G-450 from the United State to attend the show, which was later marked by a European initiative to ramp up use of biofuel in aviation.
The Biofuel Flightpath initiative endorsed by the European Commission, Airbus, leading European airlines and European biofuel producers, aims for annual production of 2 million tones of sustainably produced biofuel for aviation by 2020.
Another special guest is "Solar Impulse", a 1.6-ton solar-powered aircraft made in Swiss.
With 12,000 solar cells mounted on the wings, which provide momentum for its four electric motors, Solar Impulse made a historic 26-hour day-and-night flight without fuel in July 2010.Source:Xinhua
Much of Airbus' success was owed to increasing calls for less-emission, lower-cost and greener aircraft, making the European aircraft maker's eco-efficient A320neo Family a popular catch.
With new engines that could save 15 percent in fuel cost, A320neo aircraft earned Airbus unprecedented commitments with a total worth of some 60.9 billion U.S. dollars during the show.
Airbus had expected market demands for the aircraft, to be available in 2015, to amount to 4,000 in the next 15 years.
With requirements of fuel efficiency and environmental protection shaping the future development of global aerospace industry, alternatively fueled planes took the upwards trend at the Show.
The first biofuel-powered transatlantic flight was done by business jet Gulfstream G-450 from the United State to attend the show, which was later marked by a European initiative to ramp up use of biofuel in aviation.
The Biofuel Flightpath initiative endorsed by the European Commission, Airbus, leading European airlines and European biofuel producers, aims for annual production of 2 million tones of sustainably produced biofuel for aviation by 2020.
Another special guest is "Solar Impulse", a 1.6-ton solar-powered aircraft made in Swiss.
With 12,000 solar cells mounted on the wings, which provide momentum for its four electric motors, Solar Impulse made a historic 26-hour day-and-night flight without fuel in July 2010.Source:Xinhua
