Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with '747'

Many things have happened since I went on holiday

Many things have happened since I went on holiday... the most momentous is Richard Branson fuelling an aero engine plane with a combination of coconut and Babassu nut fuel and using it on a747 with three conventionally fueled engines to...

Virgin to trial biofuel in transatlantic 747 flight:

Virgin Atlantic has been flying from London Heathrow to Schipol Airport, the Netherlands, in a series of trial flights, according to 24 oranges, a Dutch blog in English. Gina Cobb is neither insightful or offering a very useful perspective on...

Virgin Atlantic sets early 2008 for jet biofuel debut

Richard Branson set early 2008 as a time for Virgin Atlantic, his airline to trial biofuel in a Boeing 747 flight at a meeting of Mortgage Bankers (its got to be more interesting talking about biofuels than mortages, Dickie*, but...