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Air NZ's Successful Biofuel Test Flight Thursday, January 01, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Green Technology   
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It was a history-making flight but it looked all very ordinary - and that's just how Air New Zealand wanted it. The airline yesterday completed the world's first commercial aviation test flight using biofuel to power one of its Boeing 747-400's Rolls-Royce engines. The biofuel is a 50:50 blend of jatropha and Jet A1 fuel. The jatropha plant - which Air New Zealand sourced from Africa and India - produces seeds that contain inedible lipid oil, which is used to produce fuel. (source: nzherald.co.nz)
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