You know, its funny you should bring this up. The other night I went on a google and youtube journey to first find out the status on avgas alternatives and what happened with swift fuel. I found one mention that swift and another fuel had been discovered to have "problems" but couldnt find out what that meant, with FAA stoppimng testinga nd Swift going the STC route instead. Although UL94 is apparently being sold in a lot of places, is around a buck cheaper than avgas, and people seem to be quite happy with it. https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/swift-fuel-users-upper-midwest.101929/
https://airfactsjournal.com/2018/11/the-unleaded-fuel-disaster-what-it-means-for-pilots/ I also watch The History Guy's piece on The saga of the Pacific Clipper, that Boeing 314 which was enroute to New Zealand when Pearl Harbor happened, and had to sneak home (with its passengers!) through south Asia and Africa, South Atlantic, and up from South America! They couldnt get avgas in I think Indonesia, so they pumped all remaining avgas into one tank and filled the other tanks up with car gas, and used the avgas for takeoff and climbout. PACIFIC CLIPPER STORY: https://youtu.be/B0GbkM6n90o Another piece I stumbled on was regarding British endurance tests of motorcar engines on the German Autobahn due to the "high compression" of 8.3:1 and the use of "high test" gasoline of 84 octane! (not sure of thats RON, MON or AKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating Pathe' Autobahn video - good and kinda funny! https://youtu.be/nuwTWujeMM0 I still wonder why not, like Pacific Clipper, run avgas/swift for critical phase of takeoff and initial climb, then switch to another tank with less costly 91 car gas (even with ethanol?) for cruise and landing? _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected]
