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The one hour demonstration flight will take place in a Boeing 747 - 300 from an unnamed airport in Japan and will be the first biofuel test flight in Asia.

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«Certainly the data from our biofuel test flight will be a critical component towards helping biofuel become a certified aviation fuel,» Air New Zealand's general manager of airline operations and chief pilot, Capt. David Morgan, said in a statement.

Dutch airline KLM has completed a fifth jet biofuel test flight — and the first with passengers other than flight crew.

Aviation Biofuels are the Future, But Just Not Yet With all the biofuels test flights done in the past year a couple things are clear: 1) biofuels perform very well alongside fossil fuels, in fact they have actually proven to work more efficiently; and 2) producing them at any scale approaching commercial demand is a ways off still.

Not exact matches

Test flight results have been good, but questions remain whether jet biofuel be produced in large quantities — and sustainably

The Earth Day test flight of a partially biofuel - powered F / A -18 Green Hornet was another example of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus's commitment to decreasing the military's consumption of foreign fossil fuels.

This first - of - its - kind test flight was part of an ongoing Air Force effort to prove that planes perform just as well with biofuel in the tank.

Last month, Sapphire Energy, an algae biofuel company that participated in the Continental test flight, said it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011 (Greenwire, April 28).

In the past year and a half, commercial airlines have flown four successful test flights using a variety of biofuel - jet fuel blends.

Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent blend of biofuel with traditional jet A-1 fuel can improve fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.

An interesting and potentially important initiative is that of the Virgin Green / Virgin Atlantic testing of a 20 % biofuel jet mix in a flight next week from the UK to the Netherlands

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Biofuels Make Serious Reductions to Flying's Carbon Emissions Which is good news indeed considering that tests show that the carbon emissions from flying can be reduced 84 % using cameline - based jet fuel; and that results from the aforementioned Continental Airlines flight and from an Air New Zealand test flight late in 2008 show that the blend of biofuel and conventional jet fuel they used reduced emissions by at least 60 %.

Virgin Atlantic — along with General Electric and Boeing — is already planning a test commercial flight early next year that will have one engine out of four powered partially or entirely by biofuel.

With New Zealand's government declaring itself to actively become the world's first carbon neutral nation with sustainability underpinning the «four pillars of the economy, society, the environment, and nationhood,» Air New Zealand is planning to launch the first test of a commercial 747 airliner flying partially on biofuels, as part of a deal between the airline, engine maker Rolls - Royce and aircraft manufacturer Boeing to study greener flying, with the first flight slated to take off late 2008 or early 2009 (without passengers).

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The flight test's goal was to confirm that the use of biofuels didn't make a difference in the operation of the plane, from sub-sonic to super-sonic speeds.

In touting the test flight, JAL CEO Haruka Nishimatsu said, «Our participation in the search for a viable second generation biofuel is a clear signal to everyone of our strong commitment to increasing the environmental sustainability of the JAL Group and the airline industry.»

We've just heard via Green Car Congress that Air New Zealand, in conjunction with Boeing and UOP, have just set a date for their first test - flight running on 50 % biofuel produced from non-food sources.

Image from Airplane-Pictures.net Date Set for Jatropha - Powered Test Flight The announcement that Air New Zealand had set an ambitious sustainable biofuels goal for 2013 created a lot of buzz back in September.

The airline's next step is to run a test flight using fuel from jatropha oil in the latter half of this year (see also our previous post on jatropha for biofuels).

We were the first commercial airline to test a biofuel flight and we continue to lead the airline industry as the pioneer of sustainable aviation.