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Comparison of hecter fuel with export aviation gasoline

Description: Among the fuels which will operate at compression ratios up to at least 8.0 without preignition or "pinking" is hecter fuel, whence a careful determination of its performance is of importance. For the test data presented in this report the hecter fuel used was a mixture of 30 per cent benzol and 70 per cent cyclohexane, having a low freezing point, and distilling from first drop to 90 per cent at nearly a constant temperature, about 20 degrees c. below the average distillation temperature ("mea… more
Date: January 29, 1920
Creator: Dickinson, H. C.; Gage, V. R. & Sparrow, S. W.
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