Originally Posted by
DHfan
I know virtually nothing about gas turbines, but I do know that the Vipers in the Shackleton MR.3 ran on Avgas because it was carried for the Griffons.
I "may" have read that they could only run on it for a limited time, possibly because of jet pipe temperatures. On the other hand, that could be complete gibberish.
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A jet engine can run on almost any fuel such as gasoline,diesel or kerosene - may need slight burner nozzle mod ? to run happily on petrol.
The american jet fuel (JP4) was 50/50 petrol/gasoline until they saw sense and changed to kerosene in 1995 (?) to JP8.