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Old 5th Jan 2010, 18:25
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AdamFrisch
 
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Well, the energy inefficiencies in aviation are staggering.

It's taken 50 years of jet travel and APU-equipped aicraft to come to this (Delta starts using it this year) - you'd think that'd be day one that would have been sorted out, but no:

WheelTug plc

Regular long taxis with all engines running, complicated non-GPS approaches following antiquated flight paths that waste millions of gallons - the list goes on and on.

It's just very, very backwards and slow. I mean, the C152 I fly has 12.000hrs on it and was made in the early 70's.

Only in aviation.
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