NZ airline flies jetliner partly run on biofuel (AP)

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Test Pilot Captain Keith Pattie, right, Air New Zealand's Chief Pilot Captain David Morgan, left, pose with the company's CEO , Rob Fyfe before their test of a Bio Fuel mixture in the left hand engine of Boeing 747 in Auckland, New Zealand, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Air New Zealand tested one engine of a Boeing 747-400 airplane  powering  it by a 50:50 blend of oil from jatropha plants and A1 jet fuel for the flight to test the fuel's viscosity.(AP Photo/NZ Herald, Paul Estcourt)AP – Air New Zealand has tested a passenger jet powered partially with oil from a plum-sized fruit known as jatropha, in efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and cut its fuel bill.


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