Boeing, ANA Conduct First Transpacific Biofuel Flight
Boeing 787 flew the first transpacific flight using biofuel blend on Tuesday.
Boeing personnel pump a 15-percent biofuel blend into the 787 that flew from Everett, Washington, to Tokyo on Tuesday. (Photo: Boeing)
Boeing personnel pump a 15-percent biofuel blend into the 787 that flew from Everett, Washington, to Tokyo on Tuesday. (Photo: Boeing)

Boeing and Japan’s ANA conducted the first-ever transpacific flight powered with biofuel on Tuesday using the airline’s newest Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Ferried between Paine Field in Everett, Wash., and Tokyo Haneda Airport for a regularly scheduled delivery, the airplane flew the nine-hour, 4,340-nm mission with a 15-percent biofuel blend made mainly from used cooking oil. Burning biofuel in both of its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 turbofans, the 787 produced some 30 percent less CO2 than a modern airplane of similar size would typically have emitted, said Boeing.