Airbus super-jumbo tests out new synthetic fuel
AFP, February, 2008
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TOULOUSE, France (AFP) — An Airbus A380 super jumbo, the world's largest passenger aircraft, flew here Friday from Britain using a new synthetic fuel said to be cleaner and more efficient than traditional kerosene.
The A380 left Filton, near Bristol, on the first flight using GTL -- Gas to Liquid -- earlier in the day. Three of the giant plane's four engines were powered by conventional kerosene and the fourth with the new fuel.
Oil and gas giant Shell supplied the GTL for the flight, saying on its website that for transport, it is "a clear, clean fuel, virtually free of sulphur and aromatics and has a very high" combustion level.
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It also has "significantly lower emissions of local pollutants, such as particulates, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides," it said.
Airbus said the flight allowed it to see how the engine responded.
One of the two pilots on board ...
