Airbus has completed the first ever commercial aircraft flight powered using alternative fuel – stage one in its long-term testing programme examining the environmental impact of civil aviation fuels.
An Airbus A380 aeroplane made the three hour journey from Filton to Toulouse in France with GTL (gas to liquids) – a synthetic bio-fuel processed from gas and is almost completely free of sulphur – powering its first engine. Standard jet fuel was fed into the other three engines. “Technology and innovation will be the…
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