Boeing Team Completes Biofuel Test Flight

Edited by Frances Fiorino March 03, 2008

A Boeing, General Electric and Virgin Atlantic team has flown a Boeing 747-400 from London Heathrow to Amsterdam Schiphol, marking the first commercial aircraft flight using biofuel. One of the aircraft’s General Electric CF6 engines was operating a kerosene-biofuel blend during the Feb. 24 1-hr...

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