Re:What the EFF, FAA? My Insanely Long Field Guide to the FA...
by PaulHoule on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:40PM
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Aviation is becoming a backwater of technology.
They still use leaded gas for piston planes.
Their answer to global warming is to make ‘green’ jet fuel by using painfully slow and expensive Fischer-Tropsch chemistry to build up hydrocarbons rather than switch to something reasonable like alcohols, dimethyl ether or methane. Ground transportation is 20-30 years ahead of aviation in terms of sustainable fuels but in the backwater of aviation they are too afraid to make any changes at all in fuels.
They still use leaded gas for piston planes.
Their answer to global warming is to make ‘green’ jet fuel by using painfully slow and expensive Fischer-Tropsch chemistry to build up hydrocarbons rather than switch to something reasonable like alcohols, dimethyl ether or methane. Ground transportation is 20-30 years ahead of aviation in terms of sustainable fuels but in the backwater of aviation they are too afraid to make any changes at all in fuels.