On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:28:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The Harvard trainers we were using when I was in the military all used > 140-odd octane gasoline, I beleive that's normal for aircraft piston > engines. It's still gas, but not what you put in the car. You should see > what that stuff does for a little old 1600 Mazda - goes like the > clappers but the motor doesn't last very long :-) We used to run that stuff in racing 2-strokes in the 80s. You had to be careful not to spill it on tarmac, it ate straight through. -- Neil Bothwick Only an idiot actually READS taglines.