Airbus' modern response to Boeing's famed 747, is the largest passenger plane ever built. Depending on the seat layout, the plane can carry as many as about 850 passengers, but the typical is ...

But the process for synthesising fuel from gas, known as the Fischer-Tropsch process, could equally be used on biofuels, Ohler said ahead of the trial flight to Geneva of Airbus's new 850 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. and European safety authorities on Tuesday certified that Airbus' A380 aircraft, a superjumbo jet that can carry 850 people, is safe to fly commercial passengers.