As carriers experiment with flying their planes on biofuel blends, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has taken the first crack at flying one of its jets on 100 per cent biofuel. The groundbreaking flight took place on October 29 over Ottawa, where the civil jet was tailed by another jet to collect data on the emissions produced by the all-biofuel-powered aircraft.
The jet biofuel, called ReadiJet, came from a high-yield industrial oilseed crop developed from the Ethiopian mustard plant by Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. Commercial growers of the Ethiopian mustard plant have already been contracted this year to grow the crop on 6,000 acres of land to generate the 100 per cent biofuel.
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