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Air Force receives first shipment of synthetic fuel for testing
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=38326

{EXCERPT}, by Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition,
Saturday, July 1, 2006

ARLINGTON, Va. — Air Force engineers have received their first
shipment of synthetic fuel to use in tests to see whether the
service’s mighty B-52 long-range bomber can fly using an alternative
to JP-8 jet fuel, according to Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of the
Air Force Materiel Command.

The goal of the program is to see whether it is possible to convert
not only the entire Air Force fleet, but all of the Defense
Department’s fuel-powered platforms to run on synthetic fuel, Carlson
said Thursday.

Carlson said that “the first truckload of bulk fuel,” a natural gas
derivative, was delivered the week of June 19 to Tinker Air Force
Base, Okla.

“Over the course of the next few months,” engineers will use the fuel
to run tests on dismounted Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103 turbofan
eng...

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