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Gigantic Airbus A380 with Rolls Royce Engine takes Flight Powered by Cooking Oil for the First Time

The A380 has just completed a demonstration flight running solely on cooking oil; CNN first reported oil and waste. The entire journey was powered by a single Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine. On 29 March, another A380 was flown on another test flight, this time from Toulouse to Nice, using the same fuel. The second flight…

The A380 has just completed a demonstration flight running solely on cooking oil; CNN first reported oil and waste. The entire journey was powered by a single Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine.

On 29 March, another A380 was flown on another test flight, this time from Toulouse to Nice, using the same fuel. The second flight examined fuel efficiency during takeoff and landing.

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