Virgin Atlantic completes first airline biofuel flight from London to Amsterdam
Filed under: Biodiesel, Emerging Technologies, Green Daily
Using an unmodified Boeing 747, pilots for Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic have successfully flown from London's Heathrow airport to Amsterdam using a biofuel made of a mix of coconut and babassu oil. This is the first biofueled-airline flight but not the first time an airplane has lifted off on biofuel. Recall BioJet I, for example.Virgin Atlantic's partners in this event are Boeing, GE Aviation and Imperium Renewables. The joint press release is after the jump. Advisers on the plane were monitoring the one engine that was using the biofuel (the other three were using standard fuel as a safety measure) and other systems to learn how to apply the knowledge to future flights.
Greenpeace apparently called the test flight a "high altitude greenwash" but I'm most curious about how Porsche will react to this news.
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