Author: TerraCurve
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In the latest in a series of sustainable biofuel test flights that have taken place around the world, Japan Airlines conducted a flight partly powered by a biofuel produced from the plant camelina. The Boeing 747-300 took off from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport for a flight lasting around one and a half hours.

In the past month, an Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 test flight used a 50% mix of biofuel from the plant jatropha and Continental Airlines flew one of its Boeing 737 aircraft on a 50% biofuel mix from algae and jatropha. Today’s Japan Airlines flight will use biofuel made from camelina, jatropha and algae.

Paul Steele, Executive Director of the Geneva-based Air Transport Action Group, the only global organisation representing all parts of the commercial air transport sector, said, “The biofuel test flights occurring around the world on different engine and aircraft types, using different sustainable biofuel feed stocks are strong examples of the progress being made by aviation in…

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