Re:United flies passenger flight on sustainable aviation fue...
by p1necone on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:53PM
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Seems like a perfectly reasonable test to me?
This proves that an engine can run on this fuel at 100% concentration. The other engine is exactly the same, there's no reason that this result doesn't carry over to a flight with /both/ engines using this new fuel. This is just a safer test if there turned out to be problems with the experimental fuel.
The article mentions this in the very first paragraph, I don't think there's anything to complain about here.
I also don't think the headline is misleading either. The important thing being tested here is that the engine managed a flight with a 100% concentration of the new fuel, the other engine being a failsafe with known safe fuel doesn't make the outcome of the test any less useful.
Edit: the headline on the page mentions the second engine using legacy fuel, I'm not sure why the HN headline was modified.
This proves that an engine can run on this fuel at 100% concentration. The other engine is exactly the same, there's no reason that this result doesn't carry over to a flight with /both/ engines using this new fuel. This is just a safer test if there turned out to be problems with the experimental fuel.
The article mentions this in the very first paragraph, I don't think there's anything to complain about here.
I also don't think the headline is misleading either. The important thing being tested here is that the engine managed a flight with a 100% concentration of the new fuel, the other engine being a failsafe with known safe fuel doesn't make the outcome of the test any less useful.
Edit: the headline on the page mentions the second engine using legacy fuel, I'm not sure why the HN headline was modified.