Breaking: Virgin Atlantic Operates First-Ever Commercial Flight Fueled By...
Photo: Doug Peters/PA Wire It can be hard for the environmentally minded AvGeek to get on a flight without a twinge of guilt, since planes spew tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every minute...
View ArticleA Milestone for Sustainable Aviation: Virgin Atlantic’s First Flight Powered...
The aviation sector is responsible for roughly two percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. If current trends continue, its share of the total is expected to grow substantially in coming decades....
View ArticleHouse Cleaning: Interesting Stories I Didn’t Blog
What's left of American Airlines Flight 331 that crashed in Jamaica I normally keep a nice little collection of stories I consider blogging. Sometimes I get too busy or other stories pop up and I just...
View ArticleLufthansa First Airline to Use BioFuel on Passenger Flights
Lufthansa Airbus A321 (D-AISE) coming from Hamburg. There have been quite a few airlines testing out different biofuels, but none that have run biofuels on a long-term basis during scheduled passenger...
View ArticleUnited and Alaska Airlines Announce Biofuel Regularly Schedule Flights This Week
Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 with Mount Rainier in the background. Photo by Brandon Farris. Alaska Airlines announced yesterday that they will operate 75 regularly schedule flights, using renewable...
View ArticleFollow Along Online: Alaska Makes Biofuel Flight Today #flygreen
Today, Alaska Airlines will start their first of 75 flights using abiofuel mixture and they want you to be a part of it. Following along as one flight leaves Seattle for Washington, DC (a Boeing 737)...
View ArticleBoeing and ANA Conduct First 787 Dreamliner Biofuel Flight
Boeing fills up ANA's 787 Dreamliner with biofuel. Photo from Boeing. Earlier in the week, Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) made aviation history by flying a 787 Dreamliner using a biofuel blend....
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