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Australian navy to experiment on heavy-fuel UAV operations f

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What a load of rubbish. The crude that comes out of Australian wells is sweet light to the extreme. It is so sweet you can ran a car off it with merely a tweek of the carburettor without any...

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Whether or not Australian crude can run a car is neither here nor there, the entire fleet runs on heavy oils, and that isn't going to change anytime soon.. Having to carry multiple types of fuel...

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Carburettor Larrikin? Maybe in the 1980's, get with the times.... Whats wrong with using the same fuel as the Helicopters already use? It should already have the plumming up to the Hanger/Flight...

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Re: Australian navy to experiment on heavy-fuel UAV operations f

Larrikin22 wrote:What a load of rubbish. The crude that comes out of Australian wells is sweet light to the extreme. It is so sweet you can ran a car off it with merely a tweek of the carburettor...

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Re: Australian navy to experiment on heavy-fuel UAV operations f

In the context of UAVs, "heavy fuel" means fuels like JP-5, a kerosene-based jet fuel that has a high flash point (60 deg C).  Early versions of the ScanEagle used gasoline engines.  While this is...

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