Carbon Footprint Reduction!

[SPLAT]

This must be the way forward for airshows , the Candians bringing in a Chinook in a C17.

Two for the price of one , after the Coulmbians a few years ago ,surely the Americans can fill a couple of C5's and the Russians a AN124 !

[Wes_Howes]

Theoretically that's a good idea but then when you consider that the aircraft, making that journey anyway, would be heavier and thus require more fuel to reach its destination, it would actually increase the carbon footprint for that journey

[boff180]

[aviodromefriend]

This must be the way forward for airshows , the Candians bringing in a Chinook in a C17.

Two for the price of one , after the Coulmbians a few years ago ,surely the Americans can fill a couple of C5's and the Russians a AN124 !

Same was done by the US Coast Guard in the 90s.

[speedbird2639]

Joking aside I would imagine the Worldwide carbon footprint of the airshow industry is gigantic when you consider the fuel for all the planes to travel 'unnecessarily' from all over the World and the fuel for all the visitors in their cars. And then there's the people who fly to overseas shows etc.

I know Formula 1 has a carbon offset plan which not only includes all the carbon generated by the race cars during racing, practice and testing but an estimate of the carbon generated by the fans attending the circuit.

Maybe now the President of the country which generates 20% of the worlds atmospheric carbon has pulled out of the Paris agreement its time for the airshow/ aviation industry to look at something similar?