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Latin America: first flight test TAM Airlines and Airbus by airplane powered with biofuel

Toulouse, France - Carbon reduced by up to 80 percent

TAM Airlines together with Airbus have conducted the first Jatropha-based biofuel flight in Latin America, using an A-320 plane. The biofuel, processed by UOP LLC, a Honeywell group, was a 50 percent blend of locally-sourced Brazilian Japtropha-based bio-kerosene and conventional aviation kerosene. 20 people from TAM Airlines and Airbus were on board the A-320 airplane powered by CFM56 engines which...

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Rome, Italy, 11/23/2010 14:50
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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