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Old 9th Jul 2006, 13:21
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MEON VALLEY FLYER
 
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LPG freezing at height :

Think about it. I had a LPG forklift until last year (now electric, a lot less hassle). This was in use @ Portsmouth, lets say 50 ft above see level. We always had problems with freezing of the gas. To prevent it the gas come from the bottle and staight into a pressure valve that has a water jacked aroung it from the cooling system. Theory being the running engime would stop the gas freezing. But with short use runs and winter months, it was a pig. (1991 mitsubishi compact 25 if anyone wants to know).

Now most aircraft have no water cooling to aid anti freezing and would you really want a fuel that 'could' freeze very easily and cause things to go very quite up front.

Petrol and JetA1 are perfectly good at what they do
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