(South
West Bedfordshire) (Con):...However, as I said earlier, the
challenge from overseas is there. The German Government are already
planning a large investment in a low emissions aviation research
centre that will operate in direct competition with the new Whittle
laboratory. The new laboratory will ensure that the new
technologies are used across the industrial networks in Newcastle,
Lincoln, Derby, Bristol, Glasgow and Lancashire as it partners with
Rolls-Royce Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries, Siemens, Dyson and the Aviation Technology Institute.
The new laboratory will co-locate with the aviation impact
accelerator, the design of which is based on what Cambridge has
learned from Dame Ann Dowling’s silent aircraft initiative. The
residents of the villages of Kensworth, Studham and Whipsnade
in my constituency will be particularly pleased
to learn about that, because they are all under the flight path of
London Luton airport...
(Gloucester) (Con): ...As the Member of Parliament for
Gloucester, where many years ago, Frank Whittle’s first jet engine
limped down the Hucclecote runway for its first flight, I am
delighted that just down the road at Gloucestershire airport, in
the constituency of my neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for
Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson), huge work is going on between
Electroflight—an entrepreneur and innovator-led company—and
Rolls-Royce to create the world’s first electric
aviation engine. That project, which uses the acronym
ACCEL—Accelerating the Electrification of Flight—is one step
towards the goal that my hon. Friend the Member for South West
Bedfordshire outlined.
It is an exciting project, but it is not just about Electroflight
and Rolls-Royce. It also involves Airbus, which
is the giant that effectively creates a network of mainframe
contractors across the west of England—broadly, up the M5—and,
when it comes to sub-contractors, across the whole country. The
opportunities are therefore considerable, because Airbus
stretches across the world. The project will impact all of us who
have the privilege of serving as the Prime Minister’s trade
envoys, particularly in Asia, where aviation will carry on
growing, creating huge demand for all sorts of new aircraft...
(Newcastle upon Tyne North) (Lab):...The Committee on Climate
Change says that sustainable fuels are critical to cutting
emissions from aviation, but at present the challenge seems to lie
in international agreement on how to encourage their use. In a
letter to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the chief
technology officers of Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce General
Electric, Safran, Dassault Aviation and Raytheon urged greater
efforts to create,
“conditions under which sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) can be
widely deployed”...
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