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Airline Tests Fuel Made from Trees

2/10/17 Yale Climate Connections

NARA co-director Michael Wolcott provides an interview with Bud Ward at Yale Climate Connections. The interview assesses the recent Alaska Airline flight using a blend of NARA’s biojet fuel.

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Could Wood Scraps Fuel Planes?

11/23/16 Smithsonian.com

In a game-changing move, Alaska Airlines Flight 4 took to the sky last week in the first-ever commercial flight powered by a brand new wood-based biofuel, flying from Seattle to Washington, D.C. Through a clever innovation that turns wood waste, sourced from tribal lands and private forestry operations in Washington, Oregon and Montana, into a clean burning biofuel, the aviation industry is one step closer to lower carbon emissions.view

World’s first commercial flight using forest residual biofuel is completed

11/18/16 Architectural Digest

Alaska Airlines has made history by successfully piloting the first commercial flight powered by forest residual biofuel. The flight, which took passengers from the airline’s Seattle hub to Washington, D.C.’s Reagan Airport, used a blend of standard jet fuel and gas derived from branches and wood scraps. These residual fragments are leftover from the thinning and harvesting of private forests in Washington, Oregon, and Montana. Traditionally, these scraps are left on the forest floor, where they eventually …more

Biojet fuel made from wood waste powers commercial flight

11/17/16 Market Business News

The fuel used to power the flight is a 20 percent blend of sustainable aviation biojet fuel made from cellulosic sugars derived from forest residuals – the limbs and branches that are left over and often burned after timber harvesting of managed forests.

The biojet fuel – which is chemically identical to regular jet A fuel – is the work of the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA).

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Alaska Airlines Makes History by fueling flight with biofuel from logging scrap

11/16/16 The True Activist

On Tuesday, November 15th, Alaska Airlines made history by flying the world’s first commercial flight using a sustainable, alternative biofuel sourced from forest residuals. The flight departed from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and successfully landed at the Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

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EPIC Fuels Supports Alaska Airlines in First-Ever Forrest-Powered Flight

11/16/16 Epic Fuels

First of its kind renewable biofuel made from residual wood used by Alaska Airlines

IRVING, TX–(Marketwired – November 16, 2016) – EPIC Fuels provided expertise in fuel blending as well as technical and logistical support to Alaska Airlines’ first commercial flight using the world’s first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests. The alternative jet fuel was produced through the efforts …more