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Antares DLR-H2, the first manned aircraft able to takeoff and fly powered by fuel cells took its first flight this week on July 7 in Hamburg, Germany.

Evergreen international, an Oregon-based company, announced that its Boeing 747 supertanker is now ready to fight wildlife fires after receiving its certification from the Interagency Air Tanker Board.

Air New Zealand completed a successful biofuel-powered test flight of a Boeing 747-400. The two hour flight took off from Auckland airport on Tuesday morning, December 30th, 2008 as part of a joint initiative between Air New Zealand, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Honeywell's and Terasol Energy.

Solena Group, a North American renewable energy company, is planning to produce jet fuel from garbage, tree bark and manure.