Aviation does 5% of all emissions

One liter of kerosene produces 3.5 liters of CO2 and 1.3 liter of water vapour.

In Finland all aviation pollution equals one coalbased powerplant pro year or less.

All in all aviation is responsible about 5-6% of all CO2 emissions into the air ( heating of infrastucture does about 50% ie. houses, offices, factories, shops etc. ).

An A 320 fully loaded produces less emission than a car does per person.

I bet in England also the pollution by aviation is a lot more than in Finland but definitely no more in percentage vise compared to cars and lorries etc.

What has been interesting is that some bus drivers in Helsinki can use ½ the gas than others…so driving habits also affect to this equation. Transportation companies are pretty keen to study how much gas is used because it costs millions for the company..many times more than the bus driver salary that is.

All effects of aviation in pollution have not been studied yet ( will the heated air damage more atmosphere higher where the air is thinner etc. ).

I recetly read somewhere that a famous pilot actually died in filming of the TOP GUN. Is this correct ?

Yes, its a prerequisite 😀

Quite so.

I was walking and wondering all the flyable planes in several Duxford hangar this spring…and I was impressed. Bearcat, Spitfires of several sort and even an SR-71 ( perhaps not flyable ) in the USAF Museum. All this resulted me of my toe nails to drop…they luckily grew back.

There was also a Dh-89 Dragon Rapide flying above London and I saw the same plane in Duxford. How many of those fly in UK ? Overall ?

I also saw in the coffee shop a distinguished looking WW II veteran whom I did not know. It was funny though I had a pilot type flying leather jacket on and he greeted me with a smile as if he knew me. I felt very good about it. Maybe my 1/12 scale combat flying makes me a 1/12 of a real pilot.

In Cambridge I ate a big beefy steak, then we drove back to Northwood. I love England.

rgds,

Juke

There has been quite a few acquisitions the last couple of years, so a maybe its time to keep tally on registered vintage aircraft (not static display museum aircraft, but aircraft that theoretically could participate in a Scandinavian wide airshow).

Ok I understand this, but..

We have also an Airacobra and few Me-109s ( ..and whole bunch of Vampires, Mig-15s and Fokker D XXI etc in museums ) of which one was engine runned last time in 1978…I bet you could make a flying one out of that.

mr Creosote has the control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-Bartoe_Jetwing

VEF I-16