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Old 26th Jan 2014, 07:12
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"NEW" Fuel - Is This The Answer..???

"NEW" Fuel...Well, it was thought of in 1933....

10 Gals for a flight of 400miles.....

The Besler Steam Powered Airplane (1933)

Should be far way less than $2.20 / litre or so, and nil call out fee..??

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Griffo, imagine how much further it would go today using glass cockpit technology.

How about we retro-fit the moth?
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Forget oil and diesel. Make the guy in the back seat useful and have him shovel coal into a boiler.All those train engine designers were idiots to change from coal to diesel fuel.
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Jaba, surely one application where steam gauges would be mandated
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there were a couple of PNG dags back in early air-now-got days (Blackman and Hobday RIP both) . They decided to relieve the boredom one day by
pretending their Dak was the a kind of aerial loco.

With everyone with an aisle seat peering forward, one of them made short sharp blasts with the gear horn, the other making as though to stoke the furnace at the bottom of the centre consol, shovelling steadily.

What put the gilt on the gingerbread was the way they had blackened their faces
with a bit of burnt cork, jammed their caps on back the front, and turned round regularly so the captive audience could appreciate the skit.
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tecman........waste of good steam. MPG we are wanting. Put solar panels on the wings
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