• interolivary@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    Drinking aviation alcohol has long traditions in Russia. Generally I think fuels aren’t drinkable (at least more than once) but ethyl alcohol (ie. ethanol) is used in eg. cooling and air conditioning. The Tu-22 is known as the “supersonic booze carrier” because the cockpit air conditioning used 40% ABV ethanol / water mix for coolant, and air and ground crews would drink it and even sell it.