U.S. military transport plane pilot trial intends to extend the commercial aircraft jet fuel
According to the U.S. "Air Force Times," 10 reported that, following a year of military transport aircraft using commercial aircraft fuel test, the U.S. Air Force plans to expand the trial scope of this base fuel, the trial was extended to the fighter .
reported that the military transport aircraft fuel business plan trial entered its second year this year. Currently the main use of the U.S. Air Force JP-8 military fuel, the Air Force would like to learn by experiment, when the aircraft using a commercial "JetA" instead of JP-8 fuel, after the results. By last December, the Air Force has used 140 million gallons JetA fuel, air fuel accounted for about 6% of annual consumption. These fuels mainly for the four bases of the aircraft. Reported that the pilots and ground crew generally reflect the use of JetA no problem, so the test continued until 2011, the goal is to increase the summer of 6 bases and use of this fuel to aircraft using this fuel. But these bases has not yet determined.
70 U.S. Air Force in the last century, began to use special JP-8 fuel, the addition of additives, corrosion resistance and to freeze the fuel capacity was better than the commercial fuel. But then, JetA commercial fuel performance has increased dramatically, and many military aircraft engines designed to be used JetA as fuel. Since the fuel is not only cheap commercial, and major U.S. airports have their storage areas can also save a lot of money. Allegedly, if the Air Force in the world are switching to JetA fuel, then the Air Force annual savings of about $ 40,000,000.
recent years, the Air Force as the Defense Department's largest consumer of aviation fuel, has been to promote alternative fuel energy research, plans to reach 50% by 2016 aviation fuel from alternative fuel. U.S. Air Force is currently looking for alternative fuels, including two directions, one is coal and natural gas and other non-renewable fossil resources as a source of synthetic fuel; other is corn, sugar cane and grass and other plant-based biofuels. Of course, as jet fuel for high quality requirements, the Air Force adopted a gradual approach flight, in September 2006 for the first time in a man-made synthetic fuel on B-52 flight test, which is a synthetic fuel in aircraft the first application. March 2010 Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the A-10C attack aircraft for the first time a mixed fuel for flight testing. With this year's trial the United States will extend to the commercial aircraft fuel, and fuel future U.S. fighter jets have more choices. (Zhang Qi)
("Global Times" January 12, 2011 No. 08 version)
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