Boeing and NASA are joining forces to ensure the future of aviation is sustainable. Researchers are performing high-altitude experiments focusing on contrails.
Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the lines of clouds from high-flying aircraft and can trap heat in the atmosphere."Seventeen different instruments that we used to sample emissions from the lead aircraft," said Nicki Reid who is the Operations Engineer DC-8 mission manager for NASA's Airborne Science Program.
"We're flying through the same air with one fuel and then we're turning around and coming back with a different fuel and are seeing a dramatic difference," said Richard Moore who is the principal investigator for the NASA-Boeing "In general it was really driven on where it was forecast to be good that day for contrail formation so we went to Montana that day and sometimes down the coast," said Abby Sevier who is the deputy lead of the ecoDemonstrator Platform.
"We are getting a better understanding of how they contribute and what we can do to reduce those emissions and contributions to create a cleaner earth," said Reid."So by burning sustainable aviation fuel we can show that the particle emissions are reduced, the ice crystal number in contrails is reduced and that reduces the climate impact from contrails," said Christiane Voigt who is the Research Team lead for the German Aerospace Center, or DLR.
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