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Stop lugging gas cans

By General Aviation News Staff · October 22, 2024 · 4 Comments

The electric pump will move 15 gallons of fuel per minute through an 18-foot antistatic fuel hose that includes an automatic shutoff.

How can I ensure an FBO’s fuel is not contaminated?

By Ben Visser · October 14, 2024 · 6 Comments

I recommend that you let your plane sit for maybe a half hour or so after fueling before you do your fuel sump checks. That way if you did get some moisture or contaminates, you would have a better chance of spotting it.

Murphy’s Law and the search for an unleaded fuel for general aviation

By Ben Visser · February 12, 2024 ·

Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. In the transition to unleaded fuel for general aviation, what could possibly go wrong?

Are two grades of fuel needed in the quest for unleaded avgas?

By Ben Visser · November 8, 2023 ·

The most common suggestion I have received concerning the future of unleaded avgas is that there is a need for two grades of fuels, not just one.

More questions than answers surround unleaded fuel

By Janice Wood · June 12, 2023 ·

An update on the Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions (EAGLE) initiative shows that even with years of research, there is still so much we don’t know about how general aviation piston airplanes will fly with the new fuel — or even when it will be available for widespread testing by aircraft manufacturers and engine makers.

Dear Billy

By Ben Sclair · April 19, 2023 ·

EAGLE Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions

If the FAA stood up and told my state, and all states, that an approved fuel is on the books and will be making its way to all states as soon as possible, I believe that would go a long way toward calming the anti-lead crowd and encouraging those in the business of making and delivering fuel.

GAMI unleaded fuel approved for all general aviation aircraft

By General Aviation News Staff · September 3, 2022 ·

An unleaded fuel has been approved for the entire general aviation aircraft fleet after more than a dozen years of testing by the FAA.

Clay Lacy offers Sustainable Aviation Fuel at its FBOs

By General Aviation News Staff · March 23, 2021 ·

Clay Lacy expects to sell at least 100,000 gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in 2021 at its FBOs at Van Nuys Airport and John Wayne Orange County Airport in Southern California.

Retrofitted Piper hydrogen-electric plane takes flight

By General Aviation News Staff · October 3, 2020 ·

The flight is the first step towards moving from fossil fuels to zero-emission hydrogen as the primary energy source for aviation.

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