On another forum, one man who served in the military said that jet fuel is actually just kerosene. Is that really true?
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There’s been several different blends used some have gas and other additives mixed in to avoid corrosion and icing etc.
A quick google suggests that jet fuel is a highly refined variant of Kerosene. Probably similar to the difference between regular and high octane gasoline
Yes, Avtur is basically kerosene with additives to stop icing and other stuff that grows in it. Gasoline/petrol would melt a gas turbine engine.
actually JP-4 and diesel are not all that far apart in make up. Diesel has oil added while the other does not
glt
A good dry martini is pretty close to most jet fuel
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True, but it’s much tastier! 
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When I worked at Good Hope Refinery in Norco in 1981 that’s what I was told. We made the stuff along with LPG and a few other things. Enlisting in SF was actually safer wthan working at that place.
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I prefer Bombay Sapphire while she’s into Hendrix Gin, and just point that bottle of Vermouth towards Italy and wave it a couple times. Big glasses of course!
gary
A lot of jet fuels smell like kerosene
Thats because it is kerosene
I know that the Diesel vehicles in the Dutch army actually all run on Kerosene with a special additive added.
JP-8 Is very similar to Diesel fuel.
What’s the word?
THUNDERBIRD!
What’s the price?
Thirty twice!
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Inflation - when I was a boy it was:
“ how much money ? two times twenty “
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I was a boy starting in May of '53 myself.
And here the version I knew of it was,
“what’s the price? Ninety nine twice”
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“Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy. Two times twenty is fawdy. That’s enough for evrybawdy… Gat damn!”
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