World's First Commercial Flight Powered by Biofuel by Virgin Atlantic

LONDON : Virgin Atlantic has been the first airline to carry world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel.

On Sunday Februaury 24, Virgin Atlantic had carried out a jumbo jet test flight from London to Amsterdam as a potentially useful experiment in which a Boeing 747 had one of its four engines connected to an independent biofuel tank which would provide 20% of the engines power during the experiment.

The Boeing carried some pilots and technicians on this passenger less experiment flight. The biofuel is a mixture of coconut oil and babassu oil, which produces muc less CO2 than any other regular jets.

"This breakthrough will help Virgin Atlantic to fly its planes using clean fuel sooner than expected," Sir Richard Branson, the airline's president, said before the Boeing 747 flew from London's Heathrow Airport to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

This might be a breakthrough in reducing the global warming aspect and making earth a greener place to live.