The environmental impact of air travel is well-known, and concern has been growing recently about the carbon footprint from the ultra-rich zipping around in private planes.
The University of Victoria is partnering with Bombardier to try to make a dent in this problem by working with the company to build scale models for its EcoJet project, which has the goal of building a business jet with half the carbon emissions of current Bombardier aircraft.
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