Abstract The most significant man-made sources of pollution of the higher troposphere and lower stratosphere are exhaust emissions from civil subsonic aircraft at cruise altitude (8–12 km). This paper examines such issues by computational modelling of Boeing 747-400 flights during their cruise phase between selected city pairs, for example London to Tokyo. The engine performance, exhaust pollutant prediction, and detailed flight history analysis effects of different Mach numbers and of increasing the cruise altitude from 9.8 to 12.1 km during the flight rather than staying at a constant cruise altitude of 10.5 km are studied in detail. To minimise the overall effects of atmospheric pollution, a Mach number of 0.85 and increasing altitude is the favoured cruise technique.
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