The world's first commercial test flight using itropa-based biofuel has been successfully completed

The experiment was crowned with success * Boeing and Air New Zealand say that this is a plant that grows in difficult soil and climate conditions, so its cultivation does not come at the expense of growing edible plants

Air New Zealand announces today that on Tuesday of this week, at 11.30:747 a.m., New Zealand time, the Boeing 400-XNUMX took off from Auckland Airport, and successfully performed the comprehensive test flight, using biofuel produced from a plant will be killed (mixed with standard jet fuel). The plane circled in the air and eventually landed back at the same airport. As I remember about a month ago We reported on the expected experiment.

Boeing, Air New Zealand and the refining technology developer UOP have long been working in cooperation with growers and the developers in the Terasol Energy project to develop biofuel produced from the plant, in the largest joint development project of its kind to develop jet fuel from biological sources.

Thanks to this collaboration, Air New Zealand will be the first civil airline to use biofuel in commercial use. The chief pilot of Air New Zealand said that the company is not satisfied with the fact that all the parameters showed that the situation is normal, and it will disassemble the engine into its components to check that none of them were damaged.

The Hytropa oil used in this test flight was produced and refined in South East Africa (Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania) as well as in India. It was produced from seeds grown on commercial and maintained farms. Hytropa is a plant that grows to a height of three meters and produces seeds that contain high quality lipid fats that are used to make fuel. 30-40 percent of the mass of the seed is fat and Hitropa can be grown in a variety of difficult conditions, including in brushy areas and in areas where it would otherwise not be possible to grow plants and they leave the best areas for growing edible plants.