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Note I carefully said "Jet-A burning" rather than turbines specifically. As OP mentioned, diesel piston engines burning Jet-A or diesel are fairly popular in E
by jabl 6y ago
Note I carefully said "Jet-A burning" rather than turbines specifically.
As OP mentioned, diesel piston engines burning Jet-A or diesel are fairly popular in Europe.
Of course, that still requires a new engine or even a new plane vs. the cost of keeping the current one running.
- sokoloff 6y agoYes. You carefully (half-)changed the subject in text and then shouted “hah; gotcha!” when I missed it. There is no aviation diesel available for 402-sized airplanes and none for helicopters that I’m aware of. Banner tows could fly anything, sure.
- jabl 6y agoSorry, I didn't mean to trick you into some trap.
- sokoloff 6y agoCool. It’s the turbine that provides the reliability and that happens to burn Jet-A rather than the Jet-A that provides the reliability and happens to be a turbine so the subject change was extraordinarily unlikely to be detected. Spinny-spinny works a lot more reliably than the suck-squeeze-bang-blow monkey-motion needed by reciprocating engines.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoWait what, Turbines are suck-squeeze-bang-blow, albiet without the monkey motion.
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- sokoloff 6y agoI’d replace “bang” with “burn” in turbines, but the real key is rotary vs recip.
- nine_k 6y agoDon't most helicopter fly on (unleaded) jet fuel already, their engines overwhelmingly being turbines?