Jet turbine reliability

The HPH Shark takes 28 liters of Jet A1 + 4% Aeroshell 500. That will
give about 55 minutes cruising at 80-90 knots... The technique is not
climb and glide, rather dolphin flying... pulling up in any residual
energy and in notime you have gained quite a lot of height... It works.
Typically The Shark Jet will do 170km on a tank. The FES version will do
about 100km, whilst the Shark MS (Self Launcher) will do over 300km
on a tank...

Craig

At 08:30 05 June 2015, wrote:
"Gobble as well as gulp...with Jet A at +/- $5 a gallon and AeroShell
560
at $15 a quart that works out to north of $100 to fill up the JS-1"

Well......you could certainly calculate a worst case scenario like that.
But as 11USG of Diesel / 2-stroke (4%) oil mix is flight manual
approved,
this may be a more commonly employed option.

(US prices: 10.6USG @ $2.70 + 0.42USG & $20) is $37.

Glider pilots: Tighter than a fish's a....... :P