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- KLM Schedules First Biofuel Test Flight With Passengers
- photo: abdallahh via flickr. Mark your calendars for November 23rd. That's when the first aviation biofuel test flight with passengers aboard is scheduled to take place, and the first test flight in Europe. Dutch airline KLM has announced that "a select group of passengers" will be ride in a Boeing...
- News items 2009-11-07
- Masdar-led study to research biofuel from saltwater plants
- Aerospace firm Boeing is partnering with Honeywell subsidiary UOP to commission the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology to carry out research into producing aviation biofuel from saltwater plants. Masdar will work with UOP and Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on the project, which will also...
- Articles 2009-10-19
- Seawater plants yield green aviation fuel in new research
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 UPI -- Boeing and international academic and business partners are looking into ways of producing commercially viable aviation fuel from saltwater plants in a push toward reducing carbon emissions from air travel. The Boeing Co. said scientific studies were focused on salicornia bigelovii and saltwater mangroves --...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Boeing, UOP, Mexican agency team for biofuel research
- Boeing, Honeywell's UOP and Mexico's Airports and Auxiliary Services agency, an arm of the Ministry of Communications and Transport, announced last week that they have formed a "collaboration to identify, research and further the development of a commercially viable market for Mexico-sourced sustainable aviation biofuels." Boeing Commercial Airplanes Director-Biofuel Strategy...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Air New Zealand Sustainable Biofuel Test Flight Update
- EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer this week. The jatropha-based fuel to power one of four engines on the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400, has arrived at the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby, UK, for testing...
- Research articles 2008-10-29
- Continental to run biofuel test flight on 737 jet in Houston
- Houston Platts--7Jan2009 Continental Airlines Wednesday will run a test flight in Houston of a 737commercial jet using aviation fuel derived from algae and jatropha for thefirst such demonstration in North America, the company said. The technology for the fuel was developed by UOP, the refining technologylicensing and consulting division of...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Virgin Atlantic to Test Biofuel on Commercial Jetliner
- Virgin Atlantic plans to conduct a test flight in February using a biofuel blend to fuel a Boeing 747 on a short trip between London and Amsterdam. The passenger-less, one hour and 20 minute flight test is being done in conjunction with Boeing and engine maker GE Aviation and...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Air New Zealand Updates on Biofuel Test Flight.
- TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-30 October 2008-Air New Zealand Updates on Biofuel Test FlightC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer this week. The jatropha-based fuel to power...
- Research articles 2008-10-30
- NASA Takes a Crack at Algal Biofuel
- The nice thing about having the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tackle algal biofuels versus a startup is that NASA refrains from making impossible claims. The space agency's Ames Research Center has come up with a technology that it says could potentially create aviation fuel, with the pleasant side affect...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Need to know: BP biofuel plant ... Emirates profits up ... Aramark acquisition ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Quantitative easing: The Bank of England voted to increase its quantitative easing programme by £25 billion, taking it to £200 billion, and to leave interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent. Manufacturing output: Official figures showed that manufacturing output rose by...
- News items 2009-11-05
- KLM Flies into Sustainable Air Transport
- Is that the smell of bio-kerosene in the air? If you were one of the passengers on KLM Royal Dutch Airline's first passenger flight powered by bio-kerosene this week, then you were also one of the first to get a whiff of this new sustainable fuel, if indeed it is...
- News items 2009-11-25
- Energy Roundup: Shell Prez Downplays Drilling Lift, Chavez Wants Oil Bank, $1 Billion Wind Farm for Rhode Island, and More
- Shell president downplays end of drilling ban --U.S. Shell Oil Co. President Marvin Odum has said that he's optimistic that drilling could take place off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the next few years, but that there are still major challenges ahead that could prevent new production, including interference...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- The IATA's Green Vision: Algae Biodiesel
- Recently I posted an item about how the International Air Transport Association is backing the use of second and third generation biofuels to lower jet emissions -- and they have set their target on algae. Unfortunately, algae biodiesel is decades and billions of dollars away. While some fuel...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Biomass-based Gasoline, Clean Diesel and Jet Fuel for Cars and Planes
- Until now, most biofuel discussions have focused on ethanol and biodiesel. Both those technologies show promise in freeing North America from foreign oil dependence, but both have hit some heavy obstaclesâ€"mostly arising from a lack of places to fill up. But what if we could make utterly conventional...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Airline claims first with gas
- Qatar Airways on Monday said it had put paying passengers on a flight powered by fuel made from natural gas for the first time, in what could be an important step in the industry's attempts to lower dependence on oil-based fuel. The airline contacted passengers booked for the six-hour flight...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Company Watch - General Electric
- Mar 17, 2008 Continental Airlines, Boeing and GE Aviation announced plans to conduct a biofuels demonstration flight in the first half of 2009 in an effort to identify sustainable fuel solutions for the aviation industry. Continental is the first major U.S. carrier to announce plans to highlight technological advancements...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Airline industry calls for a rapid push on biofuels
- ICAO and its contracting States have been called upon to encourage the development and use of sustainable biofuels, in a working paper issued following the recent International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO High Level Meeting on International Aviation and Climate Change ( HLM-ENV ). The working paper, issued jointly...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Continental Airlines, Boeing and GE Aviation announce joint plans for biofuel test flight
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- Research articles 2008-03-14
- Aircraft News - Asia / Pacific
- Oct 1, 2007 Air India Air India could finalize another aircraft order by the end of November and the Indian government will not delay granting approval, according to Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel. "If they complete their fleet planning by November-end,...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Company Watch - Boeing
- Oct 1, 2007 AerCap Holdings took delivery of a new Boeing 737NG, the seventh of the type the lessor has acquired in the last 12 months. Sep 28, 2007 Air New Zealand, Boeing and Rolls-Royce are to conduct a biofuel demonstration flight in a move they say is...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
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