{"id":476057,"date":"2010-03-26T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:54:50","slug":"legendary-a-10-thunderbolt-ii-makes-first-flight-on-bio-jet-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476057","title":{"rendered":"Legendary A-10 Thunderbolt II Makes First Flight On Bio Jet Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’m a bit of a history buff, and I’ve always found air combat to be particularly interesting. I’m talking about the old fighter jockeys who shot each other’s planes to ribbons with a hail of gunfire and flying prowess. Most fighter craft these days don’t even have machine guns… just lots of\u00a0missiles\u00a0and fancy doodads.<\/p>\n

But the A-10 Thunderbolt II, perhaps better known as the Warthog because of its heavy machine cannon and armor plating, still gets up close and personal with the enemy. Yesterday an Air Force test pilot flew an A-10 on a blend of bio-mass derived and regular jet fuel… without any modifications to the engine.<\/p>\n

Jet fighters costs millions upon millions of dollars already, and while the military is coming up with next generation war machines capable of running on alternative fuels, that doesn’t help us right now. The A-10, for example, costs upwards of $8.8 million per aircraft. To convert it to run a bio jetfuel could cost hundreds of thousands of more dollars. So it was important for the Air Force to find a renewable type of fuel that doesn’t require retrofitting its existing aircraft.<\/p>\n

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I’m a bit of a history buff, and I’ve always found air combat to be particularly interesting. I’m talking about the old fighter jockeys who shot each other’s planes to ribbons with a hail of gunfire and flying prowess. Most fighter craft these days don’t even have machine guns… just lots of\u00a0missiles\u00a0and fancy doodads. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}