Aviation fuel

We saw them at Sun and Fun.

And they have a range of engines now that are drop-in replacement that are turbo supercharged Jet A diesels.

Right.

Those seem to have a lot of momentum behind them for sure.

You don't wanna...

They have, you know, your United Airlines doesn't wanna divert five miles out of their way 'cause of the extra Jet A that's burned up.

Um, interesting.

Okay, let's talk about Wyoming today, ranging from low 70s to h- uh, low 80s for a high.

Okay, myth number two, and this, this was really a good one.

I had a, um, an extended, um, we'll just call it a conversation with a former coworker about the nature of, um, Jet B fuel, and I'm saying it's mostly kerosene.

Well, she went ballistic.

Again, you see a plane.

And I said, "Well, just call him up and ask him.

Ask him what they use." Uh, so let's talk about that.

Did -- Have you ever been confronted with that, or do you see that also people attribute much more incendiary, inflammatory capabilities to the properties of, uh, Jet B fuel?

It's actually Jet A.

On shorter segments, it is typically depleted first, leaving residual fuel sitting at the bottom of a tank designed to hold tens of thousands of gallons when full on flight 800.

There was roughly 50 gallons of Jet A remaining in the center wing tank.

50 gallons.

The rest of that space was vapor.

Now here is the physics, and I want every pilot listening to understand this, because it applies to more than Boeing jets.

Jet A fuel has a flashpoint of around 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

That means the liquid itself will not sustain combustion below that temperature.

But Flashpoint describes the liquid.

For the aviation industry, it's a bit of a double edged sword.

because apart from the increase in oil prices, the price of Jet A1 tends to be much higher.

In many cases throughout the summer, we've seen it being double the price of crude oil because the cost of refining as well as supplying Jet A tends to be more expensive for the airlines.

So if oil hovers around $80 to $90, the additional cost of Jet A is another 60 to 80% on top of that.

So, you know, to, to divorce himself from that kind of a, a reality and then to, uh, not come to grips with the energy crisis that is now upon the United States.

It's a diesel aviation fuel crisis.

It's real and, uh, he's ignoring it.

Just before we, uh, get into the fuel situation and, and the stunt he is trying to pull with, uh, Venezuela, can you remind everybody who controlled the Strait of Hormuz before the war?

So we're, we're, we're, we're nearing the end of it.

We may have probably another 25 days left to draw off.

Now, in, in drawing off, out off of the Stra- uh, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, w- the, the Trump administration has been able to mitigate somewhat the shortage of diesel and aviation fuel that is a result of the, the cutoff of the sour crude, the high sulfur crude that was coming out of the Persian Gulf.

And, and, and it's a little complicated, but I'll try to simplify it.

He was a roommate of Jimmy at the time.

You know, was talking about putting Jet A on the ground, you know.

But when we slid it, it was very, it was very, it was very, you know, we were worried about tipping it over.

I couldn't wait to see how fast we could get around.

Nick Talks Bond writes in, he says, based on your gladiators chat.

Oh, because of Jet.

A question for Rob.

Original gladiator John Cerro, who was Vulcan in the original 90s gladiators, was a henchman in which Bond film? Bonus point for the character name.