{"id":7418,"date":"2009-01-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/27\/first-flight-of-algae-fuelled-jet\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T12:00:00","slug":"first-flight-of-algae-fuelled-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/27\/first-flight-of-algae-fuelled-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"First Flight Of Algae-Fuelled Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7817849.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">UNITED KINGDOM, January 2009: A US airline has completed the first test flight of a plane partly powered by biofuel derived from algae and jatropha, a plant that can grow successfully in poor soils and marginal land. The 90-minute flight by a Continental Boeing 737-800 went better than expected, a spokesperson said. One of its engines was powered by a 50-50 blend of biofuel and normal aircraft fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s test is the latest in a series of demonstration flights by the aviation industry, which hopes to be using biofuels within five years.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was the first by a US carrier to use an alternative fuel source, and the first in the world to use a twin-engine commercial aircraft (rather than a four-engine plane) to test a biofuel blend.<\/p>\n<p>The flight from Houston&#8217;s Bush Intercontinental Airport completed a circuit over the Gulf of Mexico. &#8220;The airplane performed perfectly,&#8221; test pilot Rich Jankowski told the Houston Chronicle newspaper. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, January 2009: A US airline has completed the first test flight of a plane partly powered by,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}