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Strategic partner: Rolls-Royce

16 Dec 2019

Researchers at Cambridge are working with Rolls-Royce to make aeroengines greener.

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Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power

04 Dec 2019

A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here...

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Aeroplane schematics.

̽»¨Ö±²¥first non-stop transatlantic flight - 100 years on

14 Jun 2019

Exhibiton and Vickers archive at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library celebrates aviation milestone.

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Britain from the Air: 1945-2009

21 Feb 2019

Aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 – dubbed the ‘historical Google Earth’ – have been made freely available online.

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Airbus A350 XWB MSN001

Lighter planes are the future

16 Dec 2014

A global fleet of composite planes could reduce carbon emissions by up to 15 per cent, but the lighter planes alone will not enable the aviation...

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Screenshot from Attack Of ̽»¨Ö±²¥Zeppelins, which airs on Monday

Attack of the Zeppelins

23 Aug 2013

An investigation into how the Zeppelins worked, and how they were defeated, led by Cambridge engineer Hugh Hunt, forms the subject of a Channel 4...

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Air flow across a wing

How wings really work

25 Jan 2012

A 1-minute video released by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

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A DC4 drops a bouncing bomb in the reconstructed Dambusters operation.

Bombs away: ̽»¨Ö±²¥Dambusters bounce back

30 Apr 2011

̽»¨Ö±²¥daring Dambusters raid of World War II, in which RAF pilots famously used a bouncing bomb to breach two German dams, has been recreated by a...

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