Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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France’s Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) has made the first test flight of an NH90 helicopter with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). During the February&nbsp;3 flight from the DGA test center at Essais en vol in Istres, one of the helicopter’s two RTM322 engines was run on 100 percent SAF.&nbsp;
The flight was made without any engine modification and the fuel was previously validated during bench testing of an RTM322 in December at Safran Helicopter Engine’s Bordes facility. Safran Helicopter Engines is working to certify operations with 100 percent SAF while assessing any operational impact amongst its partners and customers. Using 100 percent SAF offers a potential&nbsp;CO2 reduction of 80 percent. The company’s turbine range is currently certified to run on 50 percent SAF.
The NH90 flight was made in cooperation with Safran, Airbus Helicopters, and Total Energies. Total produced the fuel from used cooking oil using hydro processed&nbsp;esters and fatty acids&nbsp;technology, which has a carbon footprint four times smaller than that of fossil fuels and meets the European Union's 65 percent abatement requirement for sustainable fuels.

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