{"id":335228,"date":"2020-02-01T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335228"},"modified":"2020-02-01T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:56:48","slug":"using-10-pc-biofuel-for-first-time-iafs-an-32-aircraft-conducts-flight-ops-at-leh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/using-10-pc-biofuel-for-first-time-iafs-an-32-aircraft-conducts-flight-ops-at-leh\/","title":{"rendered":"Using 10 pc biofuel for first time, IAF&#8217;s AN-32 aircraft conducts flight ops at Leh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, an IAF AN-32 aircraft powered with 10 per cent blend of Indian bio-fuel conducted flight operations at one of the highest airports in the world in Leh&#8217;s Kushok, according to an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bio-jet fuel is produced from non-edible &#8220;tree borne oils&#8221;, grown and procured from the tribal areas of Chhattisgarh, it said.<\/p>\n<p>IAF&#8217;s efforts would assist in reducing carbon footprint and India&#8217;s dependence on crude imports, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On 31 January, 2020&#8230; an AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force, powered with a 10 per cent blend of Indian bio-jet fuel took-off from Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, Leh,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first, an IAF AN-32 aircraft powered with 10 per cent blend of Indian bio-fuel conducted flight operations at one of the highest airports in the world in Leh&#8217;s Kushok, according to an official statement. Bio-jet fuel is produced from non-edible &#8220;tree borne oils&#8221;, grown and procured from the tribal areas of Chhattisgarh, it said. IAF&#8217;s efforts would assist in reducing carbon footprint and India&#8217;s dependence on crude imports, the statement said. &#8220;On 31 January, 2020&#8230; an AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force, powered with a 10 per cent blend of Indian bio-jet fuel took-off from Kushok Bakula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}