writer needs help

[wendy]

I am a novelist who needs some help with my current story. (Nothing
excessively complicated ... just so I sound like I know what I'm
talking about when I write it.) While roaming around search engines
trying to find out the evaporation rate for 100LL, I found your website
and hoped maybe I could find a few answers to my many questions I still
have, mostly regarding ELTs and aviation fuel. Is there anyone who'd
be interested in helping me out? I'd appreciate it so much!
--Wendy


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[Jay Honeck]

> I am a novelist who needs some help with my current story. (Nothing
> excessively complicated ... just so I sound like I know what I'm
> talking about when I write it.) While roaming around search engines
> trying to find out the evaporation rate for 100LL, I found your website
> and hoped maybe I could find a few answers to my many questions I still
> have, mostly regarding ELTs and aviation fuel. Is there anyone who'd
> be interested in helping me out? I'd appreciate it so much!

Wendy, this isn't a "website" (although you may have accessed it
through a website) -- it's a worldwide forum called "Usenet", which is
broken into tens of thousands of "newsgroups". This is an "aviation
newsgroup".

I suspect you'll get dozens of answers to your questions, if you post
them here. Ask away!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[[email protected]]

Wendy
It would help if we knew the premise that requires evap rate for 100LL.
In example,"..... the aircraft had been sitting for months on the ramp
and the fuel had evaporated leaving sticky residue.....". That is far
fetched but not entirely inaccurate either.
Lots of great experience here to draw on so ask away. If someone
presents a silly or inaccurate postulation it will receive lots of
comment!
Old Timer

[Montblack]

("wendy" wrote)
[snip]
> Is there anyone who'd be interested in helping me out? I'd appreciate it
> so much!


Oh no, she's just released the hounds! <g>


Montblack

[Cub Driver]

I remember the story of a pilot for Civil Air Transport in China. He
was flying some VIPs around on a tour, and at the end they thanked
him, with the most Important of the VIPs saying: "We knew you were a
good pilot because every morning you tasted the gasoline!"

What he was doing was taking a sample from each tank in the palm of
his hand and bringing it close to his mouth to blow on it, thus
evaporating the gas. (If it had been water, it wouldn't have
evaporated.) So it does have a pretty good evaporation rate :)

(To be sure, that wasn't 100LL. It was "high octane" for the time,
which was probably also 100. Or possibly, since this was a C-47 or
C-46, and the country was China, it was 80 octane.)



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[zatatime]

On 15 Oct 2005 06:00:18 -0700, wrote:

>If someone
>presents a silly or inaccurate postulation it will receive lots of
>comment!


Too true!!!

z

[john smith]

> (To be sure, that wasn't 100LL. It was "high octane" for the time,
> which was probably also 100. Or possibly, since this was a C-47 or
> C-46, and the country was China, it was 80 octane.)

Sure it wasn't 130 octane (grape juice)?

[AJ]

Wendy:

Be careful what you ask for!

AJ

[Andrew Gideon]

john smith wrote:

> Sure it wasn't 130 octane (grape juice)?

That would so explain what I see going on amongst younger kids.

- Andrew