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100LL meets all the requirements for 100/130, hence no STC required. Paul

Avgas was only made in Hawaii at the BarberPoint refinery. They didn’t have the octane strength to make 100LL, nor facilities to import toluene from Singapore. Paul

FAA and EPA says that would take 4 years, plus implementation time… IOW ~2030. 100UL availability is more an issue for local regulations. Paul

The 50th state. Paul

Only 12 years and 9 months... the length of the Trojan War plus one baby... Paul

One refinery was still making green 100/130 just five years ago... so over 30 years of transition. Paul

That's pretty cool, Stan! Exxon was doing diffuse solar conversion to jet and diesel using bio-engineered algae. It's all a matter of what scales most economically. They use FT downstream, presumably, so they *could* make GAMI's G100UL as well... approved today! :-) Paul

Martin, I think it was your excellent videos that pushed it over the top! :-) Paul

Bonding the airplane electrically to the fuel container is very important to avoid static discharge. Grounding is not necessary, or particularly helpful. The problem with plastic containers is that they generate MORE static electricity during use, but are typically much more difficult to bond...

The FAA met the two-week promise. Then ensued some clarification discussions - what did the FAA *mean* by what they said?! I think it's settling out now... hopefully something to share by next week. Paul

You need CHT if you have cowl flaps... Paul

You and Amelia shared a navigator? specifically, Pacifically... one of those words! :-) Paul

Except for those annoying ICE guys... they put K in front of every airport identifier, and fuss if you don't also. :-( Paul

The difference with children is that lead adversely affects connections between neurons in the brain, and hence permanently reduces intelligence. No amount of walking it off will reverse that permanent brain damage. The type and permanence of lead impact is very different for children and...

You misstated my argument... maybe another 5 IQ points would be helpful? ;-] Paul

Don’t be peevish, you are welcome to join us for lunch as well! Paul

Oh! That's where I live. Lunch?

You may just be lost! If your location is Oakland, why are you dining 90 miles east on Howe Avenue? Thanks for the suggestion, though, we enjoyed tritip salads at the Walnut Creek location yesterday, at your behest. I'm guessing Howe Avenue has gee whiz stuff because they are adjacent the...

When this happens in other contexts, like a car, there's a thing called a railroad fit... you use a punch to upset several spots around the circumference, and restore the tight fit. Paul

There are 8 avgas producing sites in North America. There are 5 companies working on unleaded avgas, but only *one* of those is also a producer, who accounts for two of those eight sites. So, unless you believe the six others will exit the market, *and* the one inventor/producer will succeed...