Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #AiaaAviation
Most recents (2)
Alan Weston, CEO, @LTAresearch, delivers Tuesday keynote at #AIAAaviation on a return of interest in #airships. 
Weston: “Electric cars have come back. I think the dawn of the new age will include airships and I'm so excited to work with my colleagues in the airship industry, to rebirth that industry.”
He describes construction of the company’s Pathfinder airship, which will target humanitarian missions.
@Airbus CTO Grazia Vittadini with some powerful words on aerospace sustainability: “Preserving our climate and our environment is not just the cherry on the cake ... This is absolutely the prerequisite, the pinner on which we must build the future of aviation.”
Pressure for green flights was already growing, amid covid-19 that's joined by questions of we protect people onboard.
“As aerospace professionals, we know the answer," Vittadini says. "There is not one single solution.”
“As aerospace professionals, we know the answer," Vittadini says. "There is not one single solution.”
She links increased passenger safety to efforts to reducing aviation's environmental impact. Climate neutral by 2050 mean pushing for improved aerodynamics, carbon-neutral fuels, automated air traffic control.
