Brazil is another story altogether. It has cheap ethanol which is a great incentive to go through all the trouble of making it work in aircraft. Experimental aircraft can burn anything, but this...
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Brazil is another story altogether. It has cheap ethanol which is a great incentive to go through all the trouble of making it work in aircraft. Experimental aircraft can burn anything, but this...
Your experience is quite the exception. Read the thousands of comments on this petition to the EPA, asking that premium fuel be excluded from ethanol blending. Many document costly damage to...
This is not entirely accurate. Water is a problem for boats and aircraft due to the open-vented fuel systems used, not because they are operated near water. Modern cars, by contrast, used closed,...
Using ethanol in any engine AND airframe combination that has not been designed for it, TC'd or STC'd is not only illegal but it is the equivalent of playing Russian roulette. An Experimental...
Why would anyone want to take the risks using ethanol-blended fuels? Even if you could make your entire fuel system ethanol-proof, you will lose power and range since ethanol has only 70% of the...
No offense, but I think that headquarters would probably stand to learn quite a bit more from chapter leaders than vice-versa. I do not know many chapter leaders who wait to be told what to do,...
That's an easy answer - it should look like Paul Poberezny's other organization, the Sport Aviation Association, http://www.sportaviationassociation.org/
Homebuilding Hall of Fame member Ed Fisher...
This is not entirely true - in modern times, ethanol was prescribed as an oxygenate in California to reduce pollutants. It became used later as a replacement for MTBE, not TEL, since MTBE was the...
Washing ethanol from E10 - More reasons why this is a dumb, dangerous idea:
1. You will never get 100% of the ethanol out of the blend by 'washing' it with even more water. It does not take much...
Jabiru reacted to actual experiences of leaking composite fuel tanks in the US. See this report:...
I do not follow bio jet fuel as closely as ethanol issues, but most recent articles on bio jet show the per gallon cost at $15-$30, which for me is a non-starter. I am not aware of any bio jet...
This is where this thread started. Play with your life on the highway if you wish, but please do not use this concoction in an airplane. If you must though, make sure you take no passengers, and...
Pure-Gas.org is a web site maintained by Sam Hokin, vintage BMW bike owner in Madison, WI. His bike pukes on ethanol, so he set up the Pure-Gas.org web site to help others find ethanol-free fuel. ...
I was referring to the ADI system developed by Todd Petersen and now being reintroduced by Air Plains of Wellington, KS. In their system, a small amount of methanol is used to prevent the water...
Call the folks at Jabiru USA as I did and ask why they rescinded the approval for Jabiru aircraft (but left it in place for engines). It is based on actual field experience with their aircraft in...
This is a blog, which is a place for people to voice opinions, which I have done. If one's purpose in homebuilding is to experiment with fuels, fine, but this must be far less than 1% of the EAA...
Misunderstandings? Please list these.
I disagree that this is drifting from a thread. The notion that anyone would attempt to separate ethanol from a blend underscores a severe lack of...
Yes, of course owners of Experimentals can do what they want, but few I know would take the risk with the fuel or lubricants in their engines. ADI uses water/methanol (not ethanol) mixture that is...
Folks,
The only solution to ethanol in fuel is to avoid it. This has been reported many times over the past years. Ethanol blends are - in nearly all instances - not allowed in our aircraft...
Note that I stated "91+ AKI autogas", not avgas. AKI = (RON+MON)/2. Avgas is rated according to the MON (Motor Octane Number) method of determining anti-detonation. RON = Research Octane Number....
Looking abroad at the way things are heading, the only two aviation fuels we're likely to have in the future are 91+ AKI autogas (no ethanol of course) and Jet-A. Any future plane I build or buy...
Bearhawk. Simple, good user community, great designer (Bob Barrows, a friend of mine), lots of room, fast enough, rugged, good for short strips (you should see Barrows airstrip in the...
Bill:
(1) The EAA has stated that 100VLL is the same as 100LL, it seems that Avgas has in reality had the same levels of lead as the new 100VLL standard for some time, read the article here:...
Folks, their are volumes of information on this issue in many places, for instance our blog at General Aviation News, http://www.generalaviationnews.com/category/opinion/gafuels/ Just a few...
Dana, you might want to check on the oxygenate law in CT; many states have rescinded these with the advent of cleaner fuels and more sophisticated engine controls in recent years. You are indeed...