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Airbus and Lufthansa launch the first passenger plane powered by bio-fuel (2)

Blagnac, France - A significant step forward towards sustainable aviation

Lufthansa is launching the first ever scheduled commercial passenger flights using bio-fuel in the first half of 2011, with an IAE (International Aero Engines) powered Airbus A-321 aircraft. The daily flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt, will be the first in the world to use a bio-fuel blend made from 50 per cent Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). When it is consumed, fuel made from bio-mass material...

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Rome, Italy, 11/29/2010 18:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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