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Just because it is "based on ethanol" doesn't mean that it is ethanol. Ethanol is ethanol, C2H6O, whether is comes from corn, switchgrass, sugar water, or ethylene. Swift processes the ethanol into hydrocarbons/alkenes/aromatic compounds of some sort that is compatible with airplane engines and...

No, because many of the other components of the fuel are also water soluble, to some degree. Toluene is a large component of automotive gasoline- up to 30 %- and is surprisingly soluble in water!! In plain water, 0.5 g or so dissolves in a liter of water. The extracted alcohol raises the...

Please explain why those references are pertinent. Which planes contain which polymers for sealants? Is it possible a C-152 uses different ways to seal the fuel? I'd like to see the citation for this, too. Conversely, is the C-152 typical of all planes?

Maybe it was outsourced to Boeing?

You mean things like arsenic? Some people in Bangladesh are sick because their water contains 50 ppb arsenic.

I work for Teledyne and I don't see anything strange about that ;)

Your statements are correct, but you may be interested that there seem to be two types of orcas. One eats fish, and the Bigg's orcas eat seals and other marine mammals...

I agree with this. I was able to see the Singapore Airshow earlier this year, the aerial portion of it. This was the first airshow I have seen outside of the USA. The Singapore Airforce had a nice F-15/ Apache demonstration team. Most of the flying teams were rather tame. The Indian Air Force...

Connect it to an external antenna, and it would be OK in my opinion. I've seen some odd positions from GPS devices with the antenna inside the vehicle. I suppose the signal bounces around inside before being received affecting the reception time. I've seen variations of as much as a mile.

My stratux CPU is hot- but I cut ventilation holes and it has been running many years now. I leave it on the glareshield, but the opaque case probably captures the sun to a great extent. It's possible I'm running on the edge and I'm just lucky.

Most animal fats I know about are solids at room temperature or colder. So you can't just drizzle the oil in to the egg/mustard/vinegar/salt mix unless you heat it first to melt the fat. That might cook the egg. Perhaps try dissolving the animal fat in vegetable oil first to disperse it, then...

Perhaps an airline? The link is United, but others probably do it as well. https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/products/charters.html Here's Kalitta: https://www.kalittacharters.com/

Same here, except I only reflashed the memory for updates.

I hope you recover quickly.

I have one that connects via blue tooth. It works very well. But it seems to be discontinued (GPS Pro) I think the plug-in models are gone, too. They seem to be replaced by something called "Flex".

Thanks for the citation. I don't have anything. Lab people are playing with silicon batteries. We haven't touched on organic molecules at all to the best of my knowledge for batteries. We can probably get up to another 5x improvement on lithium ion batteries. If I could predict the future that...

Please cite where this came from since a lithium ion battery from 2024 is very different from one from 2015. Who says we have to stay with lithium ion?

FTFY

This is one of the more reasoned responses. I'll note electric cars weren't very practical until better batteries became available. Edison built one around 1890. It took a long time for those batteries to be available. As you correctly state, there needs to be improved charging and power density...

Why does it need to fly for 4+ hours? A Robinson R22 flies at about 100 knots with a range of about 250 nautical miles. That's only 2 1/2 hours flight time. I understand that the intent of these things is to fly across town, not cross-country flights. Essentially a short-haul taxi. A reasonable...