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Montana grows jet fuel – Sustainable Oils

A video of an Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt test flight two weeks ago at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida seems unremarkable at first—just a modern warplane doing its thing. But then Jeff Braun, director of the Air Force’s Alternative Fuels Certification Office, appears after the landing to say that the aircraft, also called a "Warthog," was powered by a 50/50 blend of regular jet fuel and fuel made from camelina.

"What’s special about what happened today," Braun says on the runway, "is that we’re using a fuel that’s derived from a plant oil, so it’s a renewable resource."

And Montana farmers grew that camelina.

Sustainable Oils – http://www.susoils.com/

by Matthew Frank

Full Story: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/renewables/Content?oid=1243313

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