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If were going to allow people to keep on travelling, then were going to have to make aircraft which are far more efficient. and so there will be a real pressure to develop technologies, new shapes of aircraft, new propulsion systems that fundamentally reduce the fuel burn of aircraft. here at the university of cambridge�*s whittle laboratory, they specialise in work relating to turbomachinery. there are several projects and technologies being developed here that are considering sustainability ...

And technologies being developed here that are considering sustainability and new methods of powering aircraft. theres a wide variety of different projects under way encompassing different kinds of aircraft, from new engines and components for big commercial airliners to projects like this one — testing out the efficiency of distributing lots of electrically powered propellers across an aircrafts wing. so one of the advantages of electric propulsion is that rather than having one or two largej...

But for bigger aeroplanes with longer range, the look and design of the outside and inside of these airliners that were all familiar with could change, leading us to designs like this one — the blended wing. concepts like this offer big advantages in terms of saving fuel due to the aircrafts shape, generating large amounts of lift. they also reduce noise as a result of the engines being mounted above the wing. and more recently, there are blended wing concepts exploring hydrogen as a fuel sour...

Civilian airliners. so huge, huge, massive effort, but of course there are still some 4,000 americans on the ground in kabul and tens of thousands more afghan allies at risk afghans that are still trying to get out and its really hard to say whether theyre going to be able to get out at this point because, as we heard yesterday, american soldiers have welded the gates shut, they arent letting any more people through and although flights are still taking off from the airport, its going to be real...

Road, there might be some form of cooperation between the taliban, the u.s., and pakistan that is something that had been discussed in the peace talks. but we just dont know how its going to play out. >> we also heard that the taliban has reached out to turkey to ask them to essentially bring back their troops to provide security at the airport moving forward once the u.s. leaves. that would obviously encourage commercial airliners probably to be able to fly in. kim, its a fas-moving situation. ...

Their application, if you like, from the taliban. a remarkable moment, if you like, when theyre reaching out to a nato powered arsenal to leave troops behind in order that they can still run their airports, and that might be the way out for those who were left behind. >> its interesting, sam, that that last bit about turkey. turkey was all along in recent weeks before the taliban took over, turkey was in charge at the airport providing security for the running of the airport. and that had been t...

Are. a lot of these people travel too with documentations, the forms that they filled in for the siv process, their passports too. but also a lot traveling without any documentation. there are apparently thousands of afghan military aged males who are undocumented who made their way on to the base during a lapse in the process. and on the bases they want to check that these people are who they say they are. no piece of intelligence out there that mean that they could be a potential threat to the...

U.s. troops in. instead, the goal now is to continue to get as many people out as they have the past 48 hours or so, and that is as i said higher than what they told us was their max capacity. the u.s. military is sending just about every c-17 and 130 they have in fleets to this effort. they enlisted commercial airliners, theyre doing everything they can. opened new locations, four in the united states now where they can send afghan potential siv candidates, afghan civilians, to wait while they ...

Flight. that is part of the civil reserve air fleet that has just been activated. what is happening here is that military planes are bringing evacuees from afghanistan to u.s. bases and now commercial airliners like delta will be flying those evacuees back to the united states. but as we wait for departure, the planes stay put. as of monday night, the u.s. government says only one flight had left this base to bring evacuees to the u.s., a military plane with 60 passengers. that is nearly 8,000 i...

Sympathetic to the taliban, then having to hide in kabul, how difficult it was to get to the airport, the attention -- its like a lottery game where an american or british soldier happens to spot you in the crowd and you get in. there are still a lot of people that need to get out and have terrified for their lives. they think if the foreign forces leave and they have not been able to get themselves and their families out, they will be killed. these are people who helped us over the last 20 year...