The test plane, whose reactor runs entirely on “sustainable aviation fuel”, flew three hours on Friday, and joined Nice from Toulouse on Tuesday.
A small revolution. An A380, the largest civilian aircraft in the world, crisscrossed the skies on Friday with one of its four reactors only supplied with alternative fuel based on used cooking oil, and therefore without kerosene, the company said. Airbus aeronautics on Monday 28 March. The same aircraft, named MSN1, repeated the experience on Tuesday by connecting Nice from Toulouse.
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The test plane, which first took off Friday at 8:43 a.m. from Toulouse-Blagnac airport, remained in the air for three long hours, burning 27 tons of “sustainable aviation fuel“, according to the manufacturer. Tuesday morning, he linked Toulouse to Nice. Created by TotalEnergies in Normandy, the blend is “made from hydrotreated esters and fatty acids, free of aromatics and sulfur, and consisting primarily of used cooking oil as well as other fatty waste“, we say in a press release.
Airbus is not on its first test: in March 2021, it was an A350 which made a trip in the same conditions, and an A319neo last October. Before reaching his goalzero carbon emissions» by 2050, the aircraft manufacturer is counting on this type of alternative fuel to reduce its emissions. In his press release, he also specifies that his entire fleet is certified to fly with up to 50% of “sustainable aviation fuelmixed with kerosene.
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