Re: Fighters and Hangers

>At 3:50 PM +0000 2/26/04, agoodall@att.net wrote:
>>
>>Trucks and hover craft use different fuels from 
>>aircraft, today. This is due to the need for 
>>higher performance fuel in aircraft and the 
>>higher cost of that fuel. But let's assume that 
>>your fuel is the same, or you have no need of 
>>fuel but you do have a need for oxygen in all 
>>sizes of small craft.
>
>HUH? No they don't. They all run on JP4/JP8. 
>MoGas and Diesel is becoming a thing of the past.

To expand on this, the US Army and Marines (Nato 
really) have been moving towards standardizing on 
1 common fuel for quite some time. The complexity 
of supplying Gasoline, Diesel, JP, AV-Gas, 
kerosene and propane to name a few became too 
heavy of a burden on the logistics train. The 
Move to Multi Fuel Trucks and power packs (ie LDT 
engines in the M35s and M54 series' of 2.5 and 5 
ton cargo trucks) was an interim step. Utility 
items like Generators, shelter heaters, and such 
were disposed of if they didn't operate off of 
diesel and replacements were phased in to replace 
them. 2003 is the cutoff for mogas as i 
understand it.
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