Rougham Control Tower Aviation Museum 80th Memorial

May this year had so much to remember, a very busy month. Three long weekends incorporated Bank Holidays that brought extra visitor’s, all very welcome. The weather has been kind and all seems good.

Sunday 14th allowed us to remember the 80th Anniversary of the 94th Bomb Group, 8th USAAF, arrival in the UK. Thank you to all those who joined us for our brief service and laying of the wreathes. The mist and cloud lifted, the sun shone and a light aircraft flew over, at the end of the two minutes silence.

From Chairman Graham

“Thank you to all who came for the Memorial Service on Sunday, you did the 94th proud. Cliff Hall gave one of his fascinating talks once again and over 70 people turned out in the eventual sun to enjoy the afternoon. Special thanks go to the lads from the New Farm Aviation Heritage Museum (Rackheath) for bringing their excellent display tent, they will be here again for "Echoes of the Past" on Sunday 2nd July. We will be open again as usual on Sunday 10 till 4 so please come and say hello and soak up the atmosphere and history of this site. We are forever in the debt of the 8th USAAF for helping throughout the dark days of the Second World War and we will be here for many years to come to preserve their memories.”

Date For Your Diary

Yes, the next major diary date is Sunday 2nd of July – ‘Echoes of the Past’ day. We look forward to your company. All very welcome, please join us.

Oh, and have I forgotten to mention again – YES, CAKE. See you in the tea room at 3pm, it’s cake-o-clock! (It’s there from 10am, but please save me a slice).

See you again next month in July, here in The Directory.

For our details please refer to our website: www.rctam94th.co.uk E-mail info@rctam94th.co.uk Mobile 07931 971771

This month, we investigate the effect of various forms of transport on greenhouse gas emissions. Some of the findings are obvious but some quite unexpected.

In the UK, transport produced about 122 MT CO₂e in 2019 which is 27% of all our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Break this down one more level and we see that 91% of these emissions came from road transport – 111 MtCO₂e, and take this down one more level and we see that of the 91%, the biggest contributors were cars and taxis at 61% of emissions (68 MtCO₂e), next heavy goods vehicles at 18.5% emissions (19.5 MTCO₂e) and lastly vans at 17% emissions (19 MTCO₂e). All other modes of transport make up the other 9% of the total emissions. The best and simplest way to compare the efficiency of a mode of transport is to look at the grams of CO₂e output per kilometre per passenger or g CO₂e /km.

Here is a simple list showing the Carbon intensity of various forms of transport from lowest to highest:

Type of transport Passengers G CO₂e / km per passenger From least to most Total CO₂e per person per journey Land travel Cycling, this includes making the bicycle & food required by the cyclist 1 21g Coaches Average level 26g Trains Average level 34g Nissan Leaf Medium car electric 4 35g Medium saloon car diesel 4 52g Nissan Leaf - Medium car electric 1 140g Medium saloon car diesel 1 210g Air travel Return flight London to New York 11,100km Average level 162g 1,800kg Economy return flight London to Perth Australia 29,100km Average level 172g 5,000kg Return flight London to Rome 2900km Average level 187g 545kg Return flight Bristol to Newcastle UK Average level 340g 272kg 1st Class flight London to Perth Australia 29,100km Average level 515g 15,000kg

The craziest emissions come from a 1st class flight from London to Perth Australia. Shocking!! This one flight is around 1.5 x the annual CO₂e footprint of an individual in UK.

Flying takes all the top spots with large CO₂e emissions and with the current climate crisis this may be a time to consider alternative modes of transport where possible.

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On a national level if we want to reduce our overall greenhouse gas emissions produced by transport then we need to look at reducing our dependency on cars, lorries and vans. This we can do by a) reducing our individual car miles and b) transferring more freight to rail.

On a personal level, the greatest impact we can make is to stop flying, but we can we all make daily changes by walking or cycling short distances.I appreciate time and money are important & it is not always possible to take the least environmentally impactful mode of transport but whenever possible give it a go.

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