Following the footsteps of eco-freak billionaire Richard Branson, who’s fuelling its jets with babassu nut and coconut fuel, the US Airforce’s B-1B Lancer will be propelled with synthetic fuel.

Based on the B-1A bomber, the B-1B was developed by Rockwell International in the 1980s, when 100 of the aircraft were produced to support a nuclear mission and were stationed at Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases. In the 1990s, the B-1B was transitioned to a conventional-weapons mission.

“This week the US Air Force achieved the first supersonic flight using alternative synthetic fuel, booming a B-1B Lancer without problems over the White Sands Missile Range airspace in New Mexico. The supersonic strategic bomber, designed to deliver atomic weapons, will be able to start Armageddon at $30 to $50 less per barrel while helping the environment and without depending on foreign oil. You read that well, you commie hippie treehuggers: war is getting cheaper, and it will help climate change, nuclear winter excluded. Looking at its composition, however, the synthetic fuel is certainly not as harmless as other alternatives.”[GIZMODO]

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