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Boeing: ANA celebrates first B-787 airplane with biofuel

Washington, Usa - It also marks first ever transpacific flight

Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) made aviation history today as a 787 Dreamliner airplane flew for the first time powered in part by sustainable biofuels. The delivery flight between Boeing's Delivery Center in Everett, Wash. and Tokyo-Haneda Airport is also the first ever transpacific biofuel flight. The 787 flew with biofuel made mainly from used cooking oil and emitted an estimated 30 percent...

fra/pec - 1139701
Rome, Italy, 04/17/2012 19:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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