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Strategic partner: Rolls-Royce

16 Dec 2019

Researchers at Cambridge are working with Rolls-Royce to make aeroengines greener.

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Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power

04 Dec 2019

A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here...

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Aeroplane schematics.

The first non-stop transatlantic flight - 100 years on

14 Jun 2019

Exhibiton and Vickers archive at Cambridge University Library celebrates aviation milestone.

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Britain from the Air: 1945-2009

21 Feb 2019

Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.

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Airbus A350 XWB MSN001

Lighter planes are the future

16 Dec 2014

A global fleet of composite planes could reduce carbon emissions by up to 15 per cent, but the lighter planes alone will not enable the aviation...

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Screenshot from Attack Of The Zeppelins, which airs on Monday

Attack of the Zeppelins

23 Aug 2013

An investigation into how the Zeppelins worked, and how they were defeated, led by Cambridge engineer Hugh Hunt, forms the subject of a Channel 4...

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Heathrow Airport

The future of flying

23 Oct 2012

Aircraft that work together to solve complicated mathematical problems and airports with more flexibly used runways could be the future of flying...

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Pollution

Winds of change for pollution sensing

31 May 2012

A new system of pollution sensing, currently being tested at Heathrow Airport, could revolutionise monitoring air quality and predicting its health...

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Air flow across a wing

How wings really work

25 Jan 2012

A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

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A DC4 drops a bouncing bomb in the reconstructed Dambusters operation.

Bombs away: The Dambusters bounce back

30 Apr 2011

The daring Dambusters raid of World War II, in which RAF pilots famously used a bouncing bomb to breach two German dams, has been recreated by a...

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airplane

Planes ready for take-off in fraction of the time

06 Jun 2008

A new project which could help slash airport delays by reducing snarl-ups in the chain of operations that prepare an aircraft for its next flight is...

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