Flightglobal's very own Max Kingsley-Jones features in this excellent CNN video of last week's biofuel powered flight by Qatar Airways.
Max was on the flight - as is obvious from the video - and wrote this story on Flightglobal.
Here's the full Qatar Airways release on the flight too.
on October 23, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply
Just to clarify the article, this WAS NOT A BIOFUELS FLIGHT!
The fuel tested was GTL (gas to liquids). This is a fuel produced from Natural Gas. The carbon emissions of this process are very comparable (if not higher) to standard aviation fuel.
However GTL makes sense for Qatar Airways due to the abundance of natural gas in Qatar and Royal Dutch Shell buidling a GTL plant there.
on October 23, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply
Just to clarify the article, this WAS NOT A BIOFUELS FLIGHT!
The fuel tested was GTL (gas to liquids). This is a fuel produced from Natural Gas. The carbon emissions of this process are very comparable (if not higher) to standard aviation fuel.
However GTL makes sense for Qatar Airways due to the abundance of natural gas in Qatar and Royal Dutch Shell buidling a GTL plant there.
on October 23, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply
TOTALLY RIGHT ANONYMOUS - this was not a biofuels flight, thanks for the correction.