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Virgin Tests First Biofuel Plane

Jet flies on coconuts and babassu nuts

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Feb 24, 2008 12:35 PM CST

(Newser) – A Virgin Atlantic jet powered partially by a coconut- and Brazilian babassu nut-based biofuel made it from London to Amsterdam today in the first commercial flight to do so, the BBC reports. Virgin topdog Richard Branson hailed the flight as "pioneering" in the development... Read full story »

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