Can Planes Fly on Natural Gas? YES!

Airline flies first passenger flight on natural gas

LONDON | Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:27am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's first commercial passenger flight powered by a fuel made from natural gas completed late on Monday a six-hour journey from London to Qatar, one of the biggest producers of natural gas.

"Today's flight opens the door to an alternative to oil-based aviation fuel," Malcolm Brinded, Royal Dutch Shell's executive director upstream international, said in a statement late on Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/13/us-britain-gas-flight-idUSTRE59C1NJ20091013