Life selections

F-80s arrive Glasgow by ship 1948 LIFE Story ‘Jets to Germany’
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jets+To+Germany&q=source%3Alife&gws_rd=ssl&tbm=isch

What was the ‘machine’ you were using ?

Diesel eh,,,,,,,,i reguarly dispose of aircraft and believe me it is highly flammable,,,ok not as bad as petrol but certainly more volatile than diesel,i have had a centre tank of a 747 which was drained of fuel,,just a bit of residual in the pipes,,one swipe with the machine and up she went ,,a fairly big fire enough to take my oxygen away,luckily manadged to reverse out in time

Its scanned from an original…the online archive seems to be missing pp19-20 which is mainly an article on the B-29..

The last bit of the article is tucked in at the bottom of a 2-pager on the B-29

Kerosene and Diesel

PMN Yes I think you’re correct to group kerosene and diesel fuel together in the sense that neither will work in a gasoline engine. Furthermore the Americans divide their diesel into No1 (aka Arctic diesel, unavailable in the UK?) and No2 (regular road diesel like our DERV).Kerosene, JetA/A1 aviation fuel and ‘Diesel No1’ all come from the No1 distillate in the refinery but I suspect there’s a bit more process involved , and there have been problems in attempting to use JetA/A1 in road diesel engines (lubricants need to be added). I still prefer to describe JetA/A1 as kerosene rather than diesel, though.
Re use of road diesel in British army helicopters, I am reliably told it works OK ( the extra soot produced by the heavier oil content can be dealt with by a compressor wash)
I would think it’s unlikely developed world airlines would use road diesel in turbine airliners but who knows what goes on in undeveloped areas

QUOTE=PMN;1660666]Nothing in your nice blunt little reply really changes the fact that Jet A1 behaves much more like diesel than petrol though, does it? Which unless my brain has shut down was kind of the original poi
nt? Or at least it related to the flammability of it.

Perhaps you’re just a little bit too eager to be ‘correct’ on this one?[/QUOTE]

Beech 18 Volpair turbo conversions come to mind, and going smaller the De Havilland Canada Beaver and Otter

Sorry….I need convincing about JetA1 being Diesel with additives…..JET fuel/kerosene is the fraction distilled between 150C and275C, diesel fuel is the fraction from 200Cto350C in a fractional distillation unit (the refinery process) i.e. a different ‘cut’…. from the webpage
http://www.experimentalaircraft.info/homebuilt-aircraft/aviation-fuel-jet.php

while you could probably feed diesel fuel into an already running jet engine start-up might be a bit smoky!

And Paul is spot on – just research TWA Flight 800 and you’ll see how different JetA1 reacts when it’s in an enclosed environment.

lancastermkx JetA1 is Diesel with additives, nothing more, nothing less.