As a former Navy carrier pilot I am an expert on jet fuel and it's smell and characteristics. I figure I burned at least 3 million gals of JP-5 in my career and DUMPED about 10% of that to get to landing weight in land operations, Can you imagine opening the dump valves at altitude and spewing out 500 gallons of fuel in a few minutes? To put on a show for the landlubbers, we would open the dumps, then go to full afterburner, which would ignite the fuel vapor trail and you would look like a comet! The government price of the fuel at that time (1970) was ten cents per gallon! That said there are various grades of military jet fuel. The Air Farce uses a higher volatile fuel not deemed safe for shipboard storage. It's lighter and has a lower flashpoint. BUT you don't get the same mileage. Can be critical on a long distane flight. When I was flying out of a test center they had thousands of gallons of fuel taken out of aircraft for samples and testing. I never left the base with less than 20 gallons of fuel that was going to be burned off.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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