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Article: Aerospace & Defense News - Technology.
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- AirGuide Business
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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Dec 7, 2008
The US Air Force's use of biojet fuel could be delayed by at least two years if it is forced to certificate every civil platform it operates - despite being well ahead of schedule and significantly under budget on validating synthetics for military aircraft. The USAF says its own extensive testing in both laboratory and operational environments on various systems has revealed no anomalies so far that would have any safety or performance implications. It is committed to fleet-wide use of the blend by 2016 and is now driving efforts for a generic 50% Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuel to be given the green light by the ASTM fuel standard-setting organisation charged ...
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