Return-Path: Received: from imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.70] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b3) with ESMTP id 3227453 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:04:04 -0400 Received: from bellsouth.net ([209.215.61.196]) by imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040511230404.XWMY1249.imf22aec.mail.bellsouth.net@bellsouth.net> for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 19:04:04 -0400 Message-ID: <40A15BDF.6060007@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:03:59 -0500 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Mogas issues References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perry Mick wrote: > > > Tracy Crook wrote: > >> >> > Mogas stinks - literally. You'll have an >> airplane and a hanger that >> > smells like a jet ski . It makes passengers sick >> real fast. You will get >> > tired of the transporting hassles too. I've >> never seen any data on >> > storage stability, but I know the makers never >> plan on it being around much >> > longer that a few days. >> Oh Good grief, would anyone take this kind of stuff seriously? >> >> Tracy (ran Sun100 race on 3 week old 87 octane Mogas) > > > 5 years experience with mogas in a composite airplane with composite > tanks - no issues. > But I fly at least once a week. > > Perry I run 87 unleaded in my '50s era Massey Ferguson MF50 tractor, designed & built when unleaded was unheard of, (with only slightly higher parts cost and sophistication than certified aviation stuff) & it sits for as long as 3 or 4 months at a time in winter. Fires right up in the spring. Charlie (Ya'll come to Slobovia Outernational & eat BBQ June 5)