China’s Hainan Airlines has successfully conducted the first-ever flight in the country powered by recycled cooking oil. Boeing, Hainan Airlines, and Sinopec partnered for a landmark flight that involved a Boeing 737-800 being powered by cooking oil recovered from restaurants around China. The regularly scheduled flight, carrying over 100 passengers, … [continued]
If you read my “Boeing Biofuel Breakthrough” article carefully, you must have noticed the bit about tar sands oil and shale oil not burning as well in airplanes. Darrin Morgan, director of sustainable aviation fuels at Boeing, noted that one nice surprise for them has been finding that biofuels, on the … [continued]
The United-Arab-Emirates-based aviation heavyweight Etihad Airways will soon be offering regular 100%-biofuel-powered commercial flights throughout the region, according to recent comments made by chief operations officer Richard Hill. This strong push towards greater biofuel-use by the airline is being supported by the creation of the new BIOjet Abu Dhabi project … [continued]
