40 years of airports: airlines are demanding ever-more efficient aircraft, airports are preparing for the biggest airliner yet built and environmentalists are becoming more vocal than ever in opposing air travel growth. Bruce Hales-Dutton looks at commercial aviation's ongoing revolution.(40 Years of Airports)

Airports International | May 1, 2008| | Copyright

It is 1968--civil rights protests and student riots point the way to deep social change.

In Britain the government appoints a Royal Commission to find a site for the third London airport. In Seattle Boeing rolls out its 747, the first of the wide-bodied airliners, while Rolls-Royce starts bench-testing its RB211, one of a new breed of efficient turbofan engines.

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Have things really changed?

In 2008 debate about the future of London's airports approaches yet another critical stage; the world's major airports have ...

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