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Plane Truths...
6 August 2025: Are Modern Planes REALLY Cutting carbon?
Freedom Flight Prize does a deep dive into whether planes are really getting any better than they were back in the 1970s when the package holiday era began. The results will surprise you. We look at plane materials, engines, design and operations. Features footage from Airbus, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, General Electric, Etihad Airways and more.
John Buckley, Managing Director of Carbon Footprint Ltd and founder of the Freedom Flight Prize, explains what the Prize is and its role in tackling climate change.
Podcast
1 May 2025: The Quest for Emission-Free Air Travel - Exciting updates for 2025
Can we fly across the Atlantic without harming the planet? This podcast dives into the ground-breaking technologies and the fierce competition to achieve zero-carbon transatlantic flight. From hydrogen-powered planes to sustainable aviation fuels, we explore the future of green skies and the challenges that lie ahead.
Expert Opinion
On Airport Generation of Liquid Hydrogen is Key to Sustainable Aviation
11 March 2024: Karl Young believes the availability of liquid hydrogen (LH2) at commercial airports will ensure an accelerated development of LH2 airliners, especially supersonic and hypersonic platforms.
ABC: Future Tense Interview
Broadcast on 18 October 2020, Freedom Flight Prize Founder, John Buckley, spoke to Anthony Funnell about the prize.
Listen in for more information about the prize and the motives behind it.
Freedom Flight Prize Announced
On 1 September 2020, the Freedom Flight Prize was officially announced and this website was launched.
Making headlines
- "The challenge for zero carbon transatlantic flight is now on." - Simply Flying
- "... it will be one of the top achievements of the decade, and perhaps one of the most memorable technological advances of the century." - CleanTechnica
- "New X-Prize" - Scudrunners
- "Winning the Freedom Flight Prize would be the gift that keeps on giving." - Intelligent Living
- "Just as the Orteig Prize drove Lindbergh to talk a small aircraft company in San Diego into building his Spirit, and the Green Flight Challenge inspired Tine' Tomazic at Pipistrel to come up with the winning G4, today's Freedom Flight Prize may cause the best designers and builders to come forth with something just as revolutionary as those past prize winners. Luck to all." - Sustainable Skies