Alcohol powered production aircraft

A Brazilian company is offering the world's first ethanol-burning production aircraft. It's first plane, delivered to a crop-spraying company, is the first step towards what the company sees as a booming market for alcohol powered planes.

EMB 202 Ipanema is "the first production-series model approved by aviation authorities to run on ethanol produced from sugar cane," according to the AFP.

"Ethanol fuel is less polluting than gasoline, is renewable, and is about five times less expensive than gasoline," said Neiva director Acir Padilha Junior. Neiva is a subsidiary of Embraer, the world's fourth largest aircraft maker, which produces commercial, corporate and military jets and other aircraft. More