Shell Announces Unleaded 100-Octane Fuel

[Check 6]

This is great news. From AVweb:

Shell Oil announced on Tuesday that is had developed an unleaded 100-octane piston engine fuel to replace 100LL and, presumably, the fuel will enter the FAA’s recently established fuel testing and certification process. In a press release, Shell said the fuel is a culmination of 10 years in R&D and initial testing has been done with two OEMs, Lycoming and Piper. Read More

[Mike]

This is great news. From AVweb:

If its still 7$ bucks a gallon who cares, cept SHELL & smell'y liberal's. GA is dead where l live. 80 aircraft, no-one flies anymore.

[1600vw]

If its still 7$ bucks a gallon who cares, cept SHELL & smell'y liberal's. GA is dead where l live. 80 aircraft, no-one flies anymore.

One reason to go Sport Pilot or LSA or EAB. My airplane burns 1.5 per hr. cruises 70 if I cleaned her up with wheel pants and streamed line struts I could see 80. She has a VNE of 100. I may not be traveling places far. But I am flying and enjoying being one with my airplane.

Now step up to say a 912, you are still burning auto fuel and now you are going places, all on the cheap, as aviation goes. One reason SP program is taking off. More and more are going this route right out of the gate.

Tony

[Mike Berg]

Friend of mine just bought a load of 100LL for $4.60 per gallon which I thought was pretty reasonable. I usually mix with auto fuel about 50/50 in my 0200/L16 (Aeronca).

[Hal Bryan]

If its still 7$ bucks a gallon who cares, cept SHELL & smell'y liberal's.

Mike -

Don't do this. There's no room for political name-calling here, period.

- Hal

[Jeff Boatright]

If its still 7$ bucks a gallon who cares, cept SHELL & smell'y liberal's. GA is dead where l live. 80 aircraft, no-one flies anymore.

We have about a dozen planes at the grass strip where I'm based. Many of them fly on weekends and some on weekdays. I fly just about every weekend that the weather is good, burning 100LL in my C-85-powered Pietenpol. I use ethanol-free mogas when I can get it. I guess it's just a liberal thing - you know, being smart enough to calculate the various costs of flying and concluding that fuel costs are a relatively small portion of the overall. Of course, all my conservative pilot friends have figured this out, too, so maybe it's not a political thing at all. Who'd'a thunk, eh, Mike?

As to Shell's announcement, there's a pretty good conversation going on over at Mac's blog on this topic:

http://macsblog.com/2013/12/shell-is...nleaded-avgas/

[Hal Bryan]

I guess it's just a liberal thing - you know, being smart enough to calculate the various costs of flying and concluding that fuel costs are a relatively small portion of the overall.

Jeff - please don't escalate this.

...so maybe it's not a political thing at all.

Much better.

Now if you guys don't mind, I'd like to stop moderating and get back to building an airplane!

[1600vw]

Much better.

Now if you guys don't mind, I'd like to stop moderating and get back to building an airplane!

May I join you? I would love to help......

[pacerpilot]

One reason to go Sport Pilot or LSA or EAB. My airplane burns 1.5 per hr. cruises 70 if I cleaned her up with wheel pants and streamed line struts I could see 80. She has a VNE of 100. I may not be traveling places far. But I am flying and enjoying being one with my airplane.

Now step up to say a 912, you are still burning auto fuel and now you are going places, all on the cheap, as aviation goes. One reason SP program is taking off. More and more are going this route right out of the gate.

Tony

What engine are you running to get a 1.5 gph fuel burn?

[1600vw]

What engine are you running to get a 1.5 gph fuel burn?

1/2 vw. I have yet to use two gallons of gas flying.