Albany Tom
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I've had stabilized non-ethanol mogas gum up a lawnmower carb enough that it just wouldn't start at all in less than a year. So now I just run everything dry at the end of the season and all is good.
Back to the original topic...I think it's possible to make a pretty good argument that the most expensive aviation fuel in history was whatever was in the fuel lines on the decks of the Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi in this month a little over 80 something years ago. If that totaled a thousand gallons between the three carriers, the damage to just the ships adjusted to current dollars would be about 4 million dollars a gallon. If you chalk up the cost of the war to just that battle...which is more than a bit of a stetch...it would maybe be a thousand times that.
I know it wasn't the point of the thread, but it still makes losses attributable to my poor leaning skills seem pretty trivial in comparison.
Back to the original topic...I think it's possible to make a pretty good argument that the most expensive aviation fuel in history was whatever was in the fuel lines on the decks of the Kaga, Soryu, and Akagi in this month a little over 80 something years ago. If that totaled a thousand gallons between the three carriers, the damage to just the ships adjusted to current dollars would be about 4 million dollars a gallon. If you chalk up the cost of the war to just that battle...which is more than a bit of a stetch...it would maybe be a thousand times that.
I know it wasn't the point of the thread, but it still makes losses attributable to my poor leaning skills seem pretty trivial in comparison.
