nelstomlinson
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They look at pumps which failed during Desert Storm 1, and conclude that using Jet-A1 caused extra wear.
Not to mention that if I remember right, you needed specially hardened internals to run jet fuel in the winter time in places like Alaska.No surprise there. Jet A is a very dry fuel. Very pure kerosene basically.
Fortunately, we are unlikely to have hot fuel when the pump is cold.Failure could not be initiated by pumping cold fuel [50*F (10C)] into a hot pump [180*F
(82°C)]. However, immediate failure occurred when sufficiently hot fuel was passed through a
cold pump.