Warren East, the boss of aircraft engine company Rolls-Royce, has predicted the first transatlantic flight powered solely by sustainable aviation fuel will take place by the end of 2023 to meet a big symbolic target for the industry as it seeks carbon neutrality.
The engine and engineering executive added the company’s own efforts to power an electric engine passenger plane that would carry paying customers can happen by the middle of this decade. But it is the sustainable aviation fuel that will provide the first solutions for the mass market and longer distances.
“There have been thousands probably tens of thousands of flights powered by [sustainable] aviation fuel,” Mr East told the CogX conference in London. “Sustainable aviation…