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What will be filling our tanks in a decade?
It is interesting to reflect on the past couple of years in the aviation industry. When I first became involved in aviation at a global level in 2006, no one really believed biofuels would make much of...
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Forget biofuel, nuclear may be the ultimate aircraft power source..!
While the aviation industry concentrates on blended, sustainable, biofuels as the energy source of the future, blog The Airport Channel outlines a research project based on powering aircraft with a...
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Biofuels trials gather pace: three historic firsts in one month
The month from 30 December to 30 January will see the aviation industry conduct three different flight trials where traditional jet fuel will be replaced with biofuels. Biofuels are fuels made from...
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Air New Zealand jatropha flight, update
It is around an hour and a half until the Air New Zealand 747-400 takes off from the main runway at Auckland Airport on a flight powered, in part, by the oil from the plant Jatropha. So what exactly...
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Air New Zealand jatropha flight, update 2
The pre-flight briefing has just taken place at Auckland Airport, with Captain Dave Morgan going through some of the key stages of the test flight. One interesting point he made was that the Boeing...
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Air New Zealand jatropha flight, update 4
The Air New Zealand biofuel test flight went very well, by all accounts. The Jatropha-derived fuel performed as well as the normal Jet-A1 fuel in the other three engines of the Boeing 747-400. There...
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Continental Airlines algae-powered flight, update 1
Well, the flight has been in the air for around an hour now and the two pilots and one engineer on board will be undertaking a series of tests to demonstrate how the biofuel performs in the CFM...
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Continental Airlines algae-powered flight, update 2
The Continental Airlines biofuel flight (designated flight number CO9990) has now landed back at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. As you can see from the flight path it took above, it...
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Continental Airlines algae-powered flight, update 3
The biofuel test flight on a Continental Airlines 737-800 went better than expected – The pilots reported that the biofuel blend in their number two engine had no discernable performance difference...
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TAM and Airbus conduct first biofuel flight in LatAm
For the first time yesterday, an Airbus A320 flew on biofuel – its energy supplied by 50% biofuel from the jatropha plant and 50% normal Jet A1 fuel. Importantly, the test flight took place in Brazil,...
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