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**The Older Gentleman** · March 7th 09, 02:17 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,uk.rec.motorcycles

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (The
Older Gentleman) saying something like:

Brian Whatcott wrote:

Oh yes, they tend to run them on natural gas. That's quite a favorable
factor, apparently.

I have to ask: why?

It's a very clean-burning fuel and the oil lasts for ages, or more
accurately, keeps hold of its properties a fair bit longer than oil
that's steadily getting mankier and mankier in a petrol engine.

Thanks all. Very interesting. I knew they were clean engines, but never
thought or the aircraft application.

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