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"It’s the equivalent of those exciting first few steps of a baby"
— Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group Chairman, commenting on the first commercial aircraft to fly on biofuel, February 24, 2008.
Virgin Atlantic made the headlines in February when it became the first commercial airline to fly on renewable energy (“biofuel”). Its unmodified Boeing 747-400 made a test flight from London Heathrow to Amsterdam with one of its four fuel tanks containing a mix of coconut and palm oil. (The other three tanks contained standard jet fuel as a safety measure.)
