<VV> Non-Corvair Specific: Gas freezing?

[Mel Francis]

If you talk to anyone who has flown piston-engine aircraft in the Arctic, or 
Antarctic,
that temperature can occur right at ground level, during the winter.

Mel


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> I don't know where Matt's flying his piston aircraft, but -80F would be up 
> around 250,000 feet (outer space). 
> http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/standard-atmosphere-d_604.html
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> At that altitude freezing gas would be the least of your troubles.
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> Ned
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> From: Matt Nall <patiomatt at aol.com>
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> From: ricebugg <ricebugg at comcast.net>
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> I assume one of you chemist types will know the answer here.  The question 
> is,
> just out of curiousity, what is the freezing temp of gasoline?  I assume 
> it will
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> freeze at some temp, but so far down the scale everything else in the car 
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> become non-functioning.
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> http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=2479
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> Basically  at below -97F....  Piston aircraft  at higher altitudes 
> see -80F
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> Matt Nall
> Charleston, Oregon
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