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Flights of green fancy

Air travel shows no sign of losing its allure but its environmental impact is not going to go away. Katharine Sanderson looks at some of the ways that scientists and engineers hope to reduce the carbon wing-print of aircraft.

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Sanderson, K. Flights of green fancy. Nature 453, 264–265 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453264a

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