Blended fuel project

[Slim]

I'm doing some research on this subject.

An article in ALPA Pilot magazine described what the AF is doing with JP8 and liquified coal in the B52 fleet. This article appeared last year.

A Cincinnati Enquirer article, 3-6 months later said the fuel blend was certified for use in the B-52 fleet and was being tested in the B-1 and C-17 fleets.

I'd like to find out more. Does anyone have any info they can share? I have Googled this with mixed results.

Thanks,

Slim

 

[mzaharis]

Do some searches on aviationweek.com. They had a few articles, but I don't know if they're subscribers-only or not.

Also, my guess is that searching flightglobal.com will also turn up a couple of articles.

Try using the terms "Air Force", synthetic, B-52, and "fischer-tropsch".

 

[Slim]

Thanks...I saw the "fischer-tropsch" references and those helped. Synthetic fuels returned a lot of hits on "fischer-tropsch."

I'll try the others. My interest is when (IF!) this blended fuel becomes available as a commercial substitute/alternative for Jet-A.

Slim

 

[CAL to T-1A]

War in the Middle East, Iran threat, crazy guy running Venezula, border trouble with Mexico.....

I'd want some options to make sure I could operate the military if oil imports were cut off, too.