Ethanol Powered Airplane Certified In Brazil

In article .com,
Louis L. Perley III wrote:

I'm currently down in Brazil for work, and they sell the Ethanol at the
gas station (listed as Alchohol) I can vouch for the price difference.
Gasoline runs about 2.50 R per liter and Alchohol is 1.09 R per liter.
They are now making cars (known as a Flex car) that can take both
fuels. Can't tell you much more than this because I don't speak the
language.


Brazil has had ethanol as fuel for a lot of years now. I remember my 1989
Volkswagen Amazon (your VW FOX) had a chapter on starting an alcohol
powered engine. Before multiport fuel inyection, starting and ethanol
engine was almost impossible, so the engine was started on normal gas
and was switched to alcohol after a minute or two.

It had a small gas tank right besides the windshield washer tank you
would refill at the gas station, and it was good for a lot of starts...

Newer alcohol engines are multiport inyection, and those start as easily
as gas powered engines.

(I live in SouthAmerica, 4 hours away from Brasil)


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