An April 18 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of a plane trailed by a wide plume of white smoke. "They're spraying us," read the post. "Those are not contrails! I was born in the ...

FARNBOROUGH—Airbus UpNext, the aircraft maker’s technology innovation arm, plans to flight test a hydrogen-burning engine at altitude on a powered glider early next year as part of research into ...

Most airplane contrails go unseen from space, yet they may drive much of aviation’s climate impact, according to new MIT ...

Modern aircraft are producing longer-lasting contrails that warm the planet faster than those created by older aircraft, presenting a "double whammy" for the aviation industry's carbon reduction ...

The challenge of addressing aviation’s non-carbon dioxide emissions is receiving greater attention, with the climatic impact associated with tell-tale signs in the sky coming under increased study.

Contrails are clouds made of ice particles, which can be created when airplanes fly through cold, humid air. Persistent contrails are estimated to have a warming climate impact. Flight tests will ...

IN THE SKIES OVER MONTANA ― It was a six hour flight that officially didn't go anywhere, but could help usher in a new chapter of aviation sustainability. A high altitude series of science experiments ...

Your browser does not support iframes, but you can visit Eliminating contrails would cut aviation's climate impact by half, but can it be done? Aviation Week editors ...

If you look up in the sky during a sunny day, you might see long, skinny looking clouds coming from behind planes. Those are contrails, short for ‘condensation trails.’ Airplane engines produce them ...

The warming effect of aeroplane contrails on Earth’s climate could increase threefold by 2050, according to new research done by Lisa Bock and Ulrike Burkhardt at the German Aerospace Centre in ...

The white trails left by high-flying airplanes may be a pretty sight in a blue sky, but bomber crews dislike them for good reason: an airplane may look from the ground like an almost invisible speck, ...