Habu is Getting Dressed - Any News on Fuel Vendor?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Milton, you oughta have been at the NW Reunion a couple of years ago.  The guest for Friday night's "symposium" was an SR71 pilot -- the guy that logged the most hours at the stick in that plane.  Wonderful stories, and lots of good information, and - I admit it - a bunch of envy from me (and probably a bunch of others).   One interesting tidbit -- the plane was leaky as the dickens while on the ground.  There was so much expansion from the heat of air friction at speed that things would expand quite a bit, so the plane's builders had to compensate by making clearances large for when the plane was cold.  I remember him telling us that the '71, while on the tarmac, would mark its territory with puddles of fuel leaking out of the tanks.  I suppose that's one reason it would take off with minimum fuel load and refuel when airborne.  I admit -- that "empty" takeoff might also have had to do with getting airborne without having to push the motors hard - and therefore burn up excess fuel.  Okay, back to Habu.

[Joe Timney]

Event Gas

We will be using Rocket Brand Gas.

100 Octane Unleaded

112 Octane ( if you ran 111 last year, it was really 112 )

114 Octane

118 Octane