BioDiesel for all

Well, we finally watched the Video of a Private Czech Fighter Plan, which was being flown on cooking oil, no it probably is not the first. I imagine at the end of the Third Reich that they were trying to fly their Messerschmitt 262 interceptors off anything they could find that would light jet engine. Nevertheless it is pretty cool from a bio-fuel standpoint to fly an aircraft off of cooking oil.

The other day we were joking around about this at the Online Think Tank, calling it the World's First Flying French Fry or Flying Freedom Fry, depending on how you feel about the French and their big Air Buses. One has to wonder if this little Czech Fighter plane actually did smell like a McDonalds fry vat, while taking off? Just think if you are firing the thing up and start to taxi and all of a sudden your entire ground crew got hungry and took off for the Golden Arches to see Ronald McDonald?

In the United States, there have been many folks who have converted Diesel Motors to run off cooking grease and cooking oil and they are able to do this by using special filters to remove all the scum and debris from the used cooking oil. Remember Kerosene which is basically Jet Fuel is nearly identical to Diesel Fuel, so if you can run a truck or motor home off the stuff, then chances are with a couple of additives, and some good filtering you can fly a jet aircraft too.

Learn More about the Bio-Jet running on only Cooking Oil:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=biodiesel-takes-to-the-sky