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David Jenkins

posted on 5/3/18 at 01:17 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Aviation fuel has lower energy density and higher flash point than petrol - petrol is an entirely more unpleasant and dangerous fuel.


Correct. When people started to build their own turbine engines for R/C planes, the favourite liquid fuel was a mixture of diesel and petrol. This proved to be so dangerous that most went over to liquid propane or butane pretty fast.






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