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RE :Jet Fuel smell =,EPA

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Fuel is OK ..Called the fuel supplier the other day, he claims the sulpher content has been dropped way back due to EPA socialists, and therefore other additives are needed to do the lubrication that the sulpher is supposed to do , Thus the different odor .. personally THE NEW ADDITIVES ARE FAR MORE HARMFUL TO BE AROUND THAN WHAT WE USED FOR YEARS ,,that exhaust burns your eyes ! . combine problem is caused by a bad hand primer pump causing it to occassionally lose prime...
 
Here in MN they use 2% soybean oil - seems to work pretty good. Has a bit of a french fry odor.

--->Paul
 
Wish this smelled Like French Fries , I used Soy diesel serveral times and All went very well.. i think they started better too... This Fuel Leaves a sweet smell akin to antifreeze (We Have NO Head GASKET troubles) that will make you start hackn' sick , and eyes burn , if you get in tite quarters , especially with the jDeere 4020
 
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.
 
Gordo, I didn't know you were a Navy fighter pilot. I was an Air Force radar controller tech doing areial refueling direction and flight follow back when we were needed in SEA. When were you in?
 
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