Thales' AMELIA Project Demonstrates Potential to Halve Warming from Contrails
Thales is leading the AMELIA project to develop an advanced flight planning tool aimed at reducing aviation's climate impact. The technology uses AI and machine learning to predict and help aircraft avoid ice-supersaturated regions where heat-trapping contrails form. Recent trials involving an Austrian Airlines Boeing 777 demonstrated the system's effectiveness. The test flights successfully rerouted aircraft around contrail-forming zones with only a minimal fuel penalty of about 0.2%. According to Thales, this contrail avoidance strategy has the potential to halve the climate warming effect caused by these man-made clouds.
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