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So who was using the 10,000 tons a month, just under 30% of the fuel being consumed by the UK Crumpp?
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It is 10,000 tons at the airfields and not in the strategic reserves. It is not 10,000 tons in airplanes.
It represents 3.74% of the aviation fuel from the stock yards, to the railheads, to the airfields for the first year of the war.
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I just can't see two sets of fuel bowsers crisscrossing each other in the dispersal area
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Spend some time on an airfield....
That is why placarding is not a choice or option. Any alternative fuels will be specifically listed by specification.
That is by convention and still followed today.
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Primary, alternate, and emergency fuel for all
turbojet and turboprop engines installed in Air
Force aircraft will be listed in the aircraft -1 flight
manual.
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In order of decreasing precedence, fuel
use for Air Force aviation applications (excepting
the U-2) is as follows.
1. JP-8/JP-5
2. Jet A/Jet A-1 (with SDA, FSII, and CI)
3. TS-1 (with SDA, FSII, and CT)
4. Jet A/Jet A-1 (neat)
5. TS-1 (neat)
TS-1 must meet the Russian GOST 10227-
86 specification if used on US military aircraft.
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http://www.aflma.hq.af.mil/shared/me...100111-038.pdf