At the Arab Aviation Summit in Doha last weekend, ‘Sky Blue’, the aviation industry in the Arab region has been sharing best practices and determining their priorities in order to achieve the industry-wide targets that will be set at the Copenhagen Climate Summit next month. Aviation in the Arab region has a very low emissions [...]

Well, the biofuel test flight is now underway in Auckland. We have issued a statement about the flight, putting it into the broader context of the efforts of the aviation industry at a global level. The flight will last for another couple of hours and then there will be video and images available, with comments [...]

The pre-flight briefing has just taken place at Auckland Airport, with Captain Dave Morgan going through some of the key stages of the test flight. One interesting point he made was that the Boeing 747-400 being used for today’s test has had to be taken off the New Zealand aircraft registry and re-classified an ‘experimental’ [...]

It is around an hour and a half until the Air New Zealand 747-400 takes off from the main runway at Auckland Airport on a flight powered, in part, by the oil from the plant Jatropha. So what exactly is Jatropha? Well, Jatropha is actually a species of around 175 types of plants, shrubs and [...]

In a traditionally quiet business week of the year, a group of engineers, pilots, flight specialists and aviation executives are currently getting ready for an exciting day. At 1130 New Zealand time tomorrow (2230 GMT / 1730 Eastern on 29 December), an Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 will take off from Auckland on a two [...]

The month from 30 December to 30 January will see the aviation industry conduct three different flight trials where traditional jet fuel will be replaced with biofuels. Biofuels are fuels made from plants or algae and they need plenty of CO2 to grow, thus making it possible for the aviation industry to achieve carbon neutrality [...]