Military Tests Validate Synfuel Efforts

Edited by James E. Swickard October 01, 2008
An F-15E from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., flew with a 50-50 mix of JP-8 and synthetic natural gas-based fuel Aug. 19 and an Edwards AFB-based F-22 took on the same fuel from a KC-135 tanker Aug. 28. According to F-15E synfuel test pilot Maj. Dan Badia, "You could have had JP-8 in there and I wouldn...

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