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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=biodiesel-takes-to-the-skyBiodiesel may not become the airplane fuel of the future but it did prove effective enough to recently power a 1968 L-29 Czechoslovakian jet—dubbed BioJet 1—up to 17,000 feet (5,180 meters) over 37 minutes. A three minute, 15-second test the day before was the world's first flight entirely fueled by cooking oil.
"She flew and she flew just fine," says physicist Rudi Wiedemann, president and CEO of Biodiesel Solutions, Inc., whose company provided the fuel for the historic October flight: fresh canola oil refined into biodiesel. "We wanted to show that it was doable by just going out and doing it." [continued]
Actually, biodiesel is getting great attention wrt aviation because of its high energy density - almost as good as regular diesel.
Boeing and Virgin recently partnered in an effort to develop alternative fuels for aviation.
http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=140037
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