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Airlines go green with biofuels

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 4:37pm

Alaska Airlines began an expensive trial of biofuel-powered passenger flights Wednesday, billing the 75 trips as a pioneering effort to "fly cleaner" and to kick-start a nascent renewable-energy economy.

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Rolls-Royce jet engines involved in multiple failures

Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, November 5, 2010 - 2:50pm

SEATTLE -- This week's in-flight failure of a Rolls-Royce engine on a Qantas A380 superjumbo came less than three months after ground testing of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner engine from the same Rolls product family also resulted in a serious failure.

Are the failures linked? There are similarities between the engines, but also big differences.

It's too early to know what happened. Rolls-Royce refuses to answer questions not only about the latest incident, but even about the Dreamliner one last August.

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