Paris - The jet-driven business moved by bio-fuels, Gulfstream G-450, for the first time has flown across the Atlantic Ocean and Saturday (18 / 6) landed at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, to join the Paris International Air Show.
Gulfstream G-450, which took off from New Jersey in the United States, using a mixture of half-half bio-fuels made from "camelina," which was dubbed the Green Jet Fuel and developed by Honeywell International Inc.., During the flight across the Atlantic Ocean .
Honeywell claimed it was a historic event in the history of aviation and demonstrate the use of current and potential green fuel for civilian and military.
During the nearly seven-hour flight saves "the average 5.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions meter compared to similar aircraft that uses fuel based on petroleum.
Honeywell said the company has been producing fuel from plants which can not be eaten as "camelina", "jatropha" and algae and has so far produced more than 700,000 gallons of bio-fuels.
The use of bio fuels to drive a commercial aircraft is not a new action, but new ideas with the use of biofuels in the aviation industry update speed. The first commercial aircraft to takeoff with the use of biofuels is a Virgin Atlantic 747 in 2008, and the first plane to fully use the fuel algae present at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Germany in 2010.
The world's largest aircraft manufacturer, Boeing of the United States, and Airbus from European Union already try out the flight using bio fuel.
For the Paris Air Show, which starts this week, the plane-new Boeing 747-8 goods are also scheduled to cross the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday and each of the four engines using a fuel mixture of Green Jet Fuel production Honeywell.