X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:54:35 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [69.146.254.20] (HELO arilabs.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTP id 3529003 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:19:44 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=69.146.254.20; envelope-from=Kevin@arilabs.net Subject: RE: [LML] Re: Swift Fuel reeks havoc on kitchen clearance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C99DC7.4136A728" Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-Original-Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:19:06 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-Original-Message-ID: <7141427652BB3049A7DBF1084B67805B1E301F@penumbra.arilabs.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [LML] Re: Swift Fuel reeks havoc on kitchen clearance Thread-Index: Acmdxjn8wKTdZiGzTg+KCBC9gEZlGAAAIf3Q From: "Kevin Stallard" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C99DC7.4136A728 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Actually, if you do the math, they claim 15% increase in range/power. Means less fuel per mile. =20 =20 15% of 6.02 lbs is around .9lbs (almost the one 1 pound difference). =20 =20 Seems you can pack more energy into your wings with the same volume, with the penalty being weight instead of quantity. =20 =20 Seems close to a wash to me. If you don't need to go as far, you certainly don't have to fill it up to the top.... =20 Kevin =20 ________________________________ From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of John Hafen Sent: 2009-03-05 12:12 To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: [LML] Re: Swift Fuel reeks havoc on kitchen clearance =20 If the Swift Fuel is, as they say: "about a pound heavier per gallon," that makes it pretty much a non-starter in my IVP. "Sorry Honey, you have to stay home on this trip. I just loaded up on "Swift Fuel." If a guy leaves his wife home, because he's now a hundred pounds heavier, and he had to choose between taking his wife along or his golf clubs, then the resulting scenario hurls a javelin through the heart of the primary core of aerodynamics of flight - you know - what makes an airplane fly, which is "kitchen clearance." (we all know it has nothing to do with lift and drag and all that stuff) On 3/4/09 10:34 AM, "Kevin Stallard" wrote: Looks like the FAA testing labs are coming out with some positive feedback on Swift Fuel (100LL replacement). Looking good! =20 http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/bizav/1325-full.html#199892 =20 =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C99DC7.4136A728 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: [LML] Swift Fuel reeks havoc on kitchen clearance

Actually, if you do the math, they = claim 15% increase in range/power.  Means less fuel per mile.  =

 

15% of 6.02 lbs is around .9lbs = (almost the one 1 pound difference). 

 

Seems you can pack more energy into = your wings with the same volume, with the penalty being weight instead of = quantity. 

 

Seems close to a wash to me.  = If you don’t need to go as far, you certainly don’t have to fill it up to the = top….

 

Kevin

 

From: = Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of John Hafen
Sent: 2009-03-05 = 12:12
To: = lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Swift = Fuel reeks havoc on kitchen clearance

 

If the Swift Fuel is, as = they say:

“about a pound heavier per gallon,”

that makes it pretty much a non-starter in my IVP.  “Sorry = Honey, you have to stay home on this trip.  I just loaded up on = “Swift Fuel.”

If a guy leaves his wife home, because he’s now a hundred pounds = heavier, and he had to choose between taking his wife along or his golf clubs, = then the resulting scenario hurls a javelin through the heart of the primary core = of  aerodynamics of flight — you know — what makes an = airplane fly, which is “kitchen clearance.”  (we all know it has nothing to do with lift and drag and all that stuff)


On 3/4/09 10:34 AM, "Kevin Stallard" <Kevin@arilabs.net> wrote:

Looks like the FAA testing = labs are coming out with some positive feedback on Swift Fuel (100LL = replacement).  Looking good!
 
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/bizav/1325-full.html#199892  
 

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