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If you're not into aviation then it's hard to complain about not knowing fuel names ;-) But generally, you have kerosene and gasoline based fuels gmost popular
by p_l 4y ago
If you're not into aviation then it's hard to complain about not knowing fuel names ;-)
But generally, you have kerosene and gasoline based fuels gmost popular of them are JET-A1 (kerosene with additives) and AVGAS100LL (gasoline based, low lead). There are others, including jet fuels that are heavily cut with paraffin (or infamously with lighter fluid) iirc and AVGAS variants that don't contain any lead.
Fully synthetic fuels have been used in the past, mostly for high efficiency (USSR had an R-7 aka Soyuz variant for extra hard orbits that used syntin in place of RP-1 aka kerosene) though lost people remember "coal to fuel" attempts of axis forces in WW2