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Fuels and Dopes for Aircraft Engines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

Six years ago the present authors read a paper on “Aviation Spirit, Past, Present and Future.”

At that time the subject of special interest was the possibility of finding substitutes for petroleum spirit and a variety of alternative volatile combustibles was described.

Six years ago there happened one of the periodical scares regarding a possible world-famine in petroleum and naturally the chemist at that time was anxious, to find substitute fuels.

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Proceedings
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1930

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