Airbus has conducted flight tests of the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380, fueled with biofuel from waste vegetable oil and other fats, CNN reported.
Test flights took place on 25 and 29 March. The A380 spent about three hours in the air during the first flight, taking off from Blagnac airport in Toulouse. Then the liner set off from Toulouse to Nice.
According to Airbus, during the tests, vegetable-based sequential biofuels were supplied to only one aircraft engine, Business Insider noted.
Modern airliners have so far been forced to use a mixture of eco-fuel with conventional jet fuel in a proportion of up to 50% of each of the substances.
According to the airline, the use of sequential biofuels in aviation can reduce carbon emissions by 53% to 71% per flight.
The French company also plans to bring the first zero-emission aircraft to global market by 2035.
Previously, global media also reported on the delivery of the first batch of environmentally friendly jet fuel from Shell to Singapore. Fuel is produced from waste and sustainable raw materials.