'Significant milestone': United Airlines flies passenger aircraft using 100 per cent biofuel engine

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The flight used 100 per cent SAF in one of its engines | Credit: United Airlines
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The flight used 100 per cent SAF in one of its engines | Credit: United Airlines

The US airline claims yesterday's commercial flight between Chicago and Washington D.C. is the first to use unblended sustainable aviation fuel in one of its engines

An aircraft using 100 per cent 'sustainable aviation fuel' (SAF) to entirely power one of its engines successfully flew between Chicago's and Washington D.C. yesterday, in what United Airlines has hailed...

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