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Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions Tests

Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions Tests
Flying some 500 feet behind NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory, NASA Langley's heavily instrumented HU-25 Falcon measured chemical components of the exhaust streaming from the DC-8's engines burning a 50/50 mix of conventional jet fuel and a plant-based biofuel during the 2013 ACCESS biofuels flight tests.

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Mission: Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (ACCESS)
Flying some 500 feet behind NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory, NASA Langley’s heavily instrumented HU-25 Falcon measured chemical components of the exhaust streaming from the DC-8’s engines burning a 50/50 mix of conventional jet fuel and a plant-based biofuel during the 2013 ACCESS biofuels flight tests.› Read News Release 13-06February 28, 2013
NASA / Lori Losey