biofuel
Air New Zealand, Boeing and Rolls-Royce will use biofuel made from the oil of jatropha plants on a commercial airline demonstration flight in December. The ‘green’ jet fuel will be mixed 50/50 with Jet A1 kerosene jet fuel and will power one of the Boeing 747-400’s Rolls-Royce engines.
biofuel
What do Air New Zealand, KLM, Continental and Virgin got in common? If you said they’re all airlines, you’d be right. If you said they’re all international airlines, you’d be right too. If you said they all have vowels in their name, you’d be wrong
boeing
In a recent visit to the Aussie town of Exmouth, Greenbang was told this story about the town – home to massive naval radio communications towers – by a local, whose fellow townsperson had got talking to a Russian fellow on a visit to London. The Russian had enquired where our Aussie
boeing
Greenbang has a low fun threshold. She almost choked on her beans and toast this morning due to a state of dangerous excitement caused by the discovery that Boeing has flown a hydrogen fuel cell powered plane. According to the venerable Boeing, it’s the first time “in aviation history”
aviation
It looks like everyone wants to be a Virgin these days, especially a mile-high one: the biofuels trail blazed by Virgin is now being trodden by Continental Airlines along with chums Boeing and GE Aviation. The threesome have announced that they plan to do a test flight using bio-aviation-fuel in
amsterdam
Remember how Virgin Atlantic said was going to fly a biofuel plane in February? Well, it’s February and guess what? The flight has flown. The biofuel-powered 747 flew from London to Amsterdam, using fuel made from a mix of babassu oil and coconut oil and no amendments to its