Canada’s National Research Council is doing independent ground testing of two alternatives to 100LL avgas that are undergoing tests by the FAA. The Canadian organization is comparing the performance of Swift Fuels’ and Shell’s lead-free aviation fuels to regular avgas in an altitude chamber that allows it to replicate flight conditions in the controlled environment of the lab. AVweb’s Russ Niles was recently given a tour.
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