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Airlines ponder legal challenge to carbon emissions scheme, while Chinese government may resort to 'retaliatory measures' China's four leading airlines have thrown down the gauntlet to the European Union by saying they will refuse to pay carbon charges levied under Europe's emissions trading

A new aircraft wing manufacturing facility in North Wales, opened by Airbus yesterday, will secure 6,000 jobs. The additional factory expands existing manufacturing capacity in Broughton, where some of the wings for the A380 aircraft are manufactured. The new facility will produce the carbon fibre

Nuclear-powered aircraft have been looked at from time to time over the history of aviation because of their potential for extremely long endurance and, more recently, their independence from fossil fuels. But  they always founder on the real and perceived issues of nuclear safety. What if