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WWW.DASSAULTFALCON.COM I FRANCE: +33 1 47 11 88 68 I USA: +1 201 541 4600 June 2021 EBACE PUBLICATIONS Convention News Sustainability A GREEN FLIGHT PLAN FOR BIZAV Erik Lindbergh urges bizav to step up › page 4 by Chad Trautvetter Manufacturing If it weren’t for the pandemic, EBACE 2021 second-largest business aircraft fleet— has made enormous progress,” NBAA presi- would have been held in person last month carbon neutral by 2050. And the U.S.—the dent and CEO Ed Bolen told AIN as EBACE Supply chain issues drag and the prevailing topic would have been largest business aviation market—could be Connect was winding down. “Looking to sustainability. Still, this issue was reflected close behind in setting emissions goals. the future, SAF is the cornerstone to achiev- on market › page 14 in the virtual EBACE Connect, with six of Fortunately, business aviation leaders saw ing our emissions goals as both a solution its 11 sessions having all or a major portion this coming more than a decade ago. In 2009, for today and the bridge to the emission- Operations of their discussion focused on sustainability NBAA, EBAA and other organizations sought reducing technologies of tomorrow.” in business aviation. Additionally, a virtual to reduce business aviation’s carbon emis- Sustainability topics covered at EBACE Brexit effects worse than European Business Aviation Sustainable sions via the Business Aviation Commitment Connect included SAF and other alternative Aviation Fuel (SAF) Summit was held in late on Climate Change. This initiative pledged fuels such as hydrogen, electric aircraft, new expected› page 31 April as a run-up to EBACE Connect. a 2 percent improvement in efficiency per technology, and carbon credits. You’ll find Though Covid-19 is still an immediate year from 2010 to 2020, with carbon-neutral summaries of these sessions and stories concern, the business aviation communi- growth from 2020 onward and a 50 percent about a range of other topics affecting the Asia-Pac ty’s next biggest hurdle is the environment. reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. business aviation community in Europe and The outlook for bizav in In fact, the European Green Deal seeks “Business aviation has long been focused on elsewhere in this special edition of EBACE to make Europe—which has the world’s emissions reduction, and to date the industry Convention News. n Asia › page 35 OXYGEN RICH. prae•tor six hun•dred : arrive refreshed with the best-in-class cabin altitude of 5,800 ft +1 321 751 5050 | embraer.com/human OXYGEN RICH. prae•tor six hun•dred : arrive refreshed with the best-in-class cabin altitude of 5,800 ft +1 321 751 5050 | embraer.com/human Lindbergh pushes bizav’s environmental leadership by Charles Alcock In the May 18 keynote presentation at need to move in that direction.” EBACE Connect, aviator and philan- Lindbergh also confirmed his inten- thropist Erik Lindbergh challenged the tion to mark the centenary of the first business aviation sector to step up its solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 by leadership role in making the industry his grandfather, Charles Lindbergh. He more environmentally sustainable. He told the EBACE Connect audience that told NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen he aims to make the flight from New that the Charles and Anne Morrow Lind- York to Paris in a low- or zero-carbon Erik Lindbergh (right) addressed the keynote session of the EBACE Connect event with NBAA bergh Foundation will roll out a series aircraft, adding that a hybrid-electric president and CEO Ed Bolen. of prizes to incentivize innovation model will probably prove to be the most towards carbon neutrality through its feasible option. completely new missions like eVTOL fuels (SAF). “There will be new biofu- ForeverFlight initiative, which is backed The EBACE Connect keynote ses- and eSTOL,” he maintained. “Over the els, and potentially hydrogen and other by the X Prize Foundation and its $100 sion also featured advocacy for electric next five to 10 years, these new aircraft alternative fuels like ammonia but these million funding from Elon Musk. aircraft and new fuels and propulsion will change the way we move around the are new and unproven,” he commented. “We will have multiple prizes to systems. Lindbergh, who is chairman planet, starting with short and medium- “SAF has shifted from using palm fuels overcome barriers [to its net and true of hybrid-electric propulsion pioneer range missions.” and now companies are taking fuel zero-carbon goals], and we’re not sit- VerdeGo Aero, encouraged business avia- While the new aircraft are working stocks that are more sustainable. This ting in the back waiting for something tion executives to be part of this new wave. their way towards service entry, Lind- is the bridge that will get us to these to happen that we might not like,” said “The advent of electric distributed bergh endorsed Bolen’s call for business other fuels and crazy new batteries, so Lindbergh. “Europe is leading the way in propulsion and the ability to put thrust aviation to continue to be at the van- we have to use what we have now and sustainability issues and we in the U.S. anywhere on an airframe lets you have guard for adopting sustainable aviation slowly transfer to what’s coming.” n principles to seek progress that aims to Scientists leave no stone support sustainability at every stage. With Shell now IBAC’s this in mind, Anita Sengupta, a former NASA engineer who has launched a hydro- first European unturned for sustainability gen fuel cell developer called Hydroplane, argued that electric batteries for aircraft PS3 enrollee by Charles Alcock are not “an evolutionary path” because of Shell Aircraft has become the first oper- how they are produced and disposed of at ator in Europe to enroll in the Interna- What will it take to make aviation more aerospace group is leaving no stone the end of their useful life. tional Business Aviation Council’s (IBAC) environmentally sustainable? Just about unturned in the quest for sustainability, California-based Hydroplane is work- new International Standard for Busi- anything and everything seemed to be with teams also working in fields such ing on a new hydrogen fuel cell system ness Aircraft Operators (IS-BAO) Pro- the answer from a May 19 EBACE Connect as quantum computing and sensing, as to power aircraft operated on shorter gressive Stage 3 (PS3) program. IBAC session on the issue. well as biomimicry (looking for inspi- regional routes. According to Sengupta, launched the PS3 option in 2020 after The EBACE audience heard how Air- ration from birds and insects). The one her team could be ready for an initial flight a beta team of operators designed and bus has scientists with its BlueSky team propulsion technology she did rule out test on an unspecified aircraft within 18 tested the program over two years. tapping microbiology for techniques was nuclear energy due to the harmful months, and could potentially be available PS3 allows operators to access such as using microbes and enzymes to waste it generates. to start operating “in a European island the Stage 3 safety system, share data, “brew” new aircraft fuels using waste The Munich, Germany-based Airbus nation” by around 2023 or 2024. and take advantage of opportunities that can’t otherwise be cleanly disposed scientist’s message was closely echoed by Sebastiano Fumero, an advisor with to mentor and share best practices. of. According to senior research project other speakers, who called on business the European Commission (EC), said that IBAC calls the one-day Progressive leader Patricia Parleviet, the European aviation to channel circular economic organization has launched a consultation auditing process—featuring a creden- with alternative fuel producers to encour- tialed Progressive auditor based in the age new ways to increase production rates operator’s region—a key benefit. for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). “With Shell Aviation became IS-BAO what we hope will be a fast recovery [from Stage 1 in 2004 and progressed to Covid] for the industry, it will be hard to Stage 3 in 2007. Shell Aircraft oper- make enough for aviation,” he said. ates three Dassault Falcon 8Xs based According to Fumero, the EC’s new in the Netherlands and it o!sets its public- private joint undertaking is appeal- emissions using carbon credits. ing for new ideas and partners not only “We are so glad to see this new PS3 from within aviation but also from the concept come together and excited energy sector and other industries. He said about integrating it into our depart- that European regulators also are consider- ment,” said Shell director of corpo- ing plans to require a minimum percentage rate aviation, Stan Medved. “Sharing of SAF to be blended with jet-A. n important safety data and spending more time with the progressive audi- tor will provide more learning oppor- tunities on both sides, providing a EBACE Connect’s sustainability session was moderated by Rohit Jaggi (top left), deputy editor more collaborative environment that of the Financial Times.