X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.102] (HELO ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.7f) with ESMTP id 940817 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:59:49 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.102; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.253] (cpe-066-057-036-199.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.36.199]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id k0M4x1fU020211 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:59:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43D31115.8020003@nc.rr.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:59:01 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-2.1.fc4.nr (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Auto fuel References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Bob Perkinson wrote: >Charlie, >Back before M33 had Jet A (Pre 1980's), I witnessed Pilots having av gas >pumped in the tanks of mostly Lear Jets that stopped in, mixing the fuel. >This I understand could be done up to a maximum ratio of Av Gas to Jet A. I >am curious if the rotary could run on a mixture of Heavy fuel and Av gas or >Mo gas? What would be the maximum ratio that could be burnt without >suffering any derogation? > >Just another of those off the wall thoughts > > My Dad told me once that you could run a car off of kerosene, IFF you had enough gas to get it started first. It would run rough as the dickins, and smoke the whole neighborhood, but it would move the car. Never actually had the nerve to try it myself. -- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."