Originally Posted by
Lemondrop
Re: the mistake with the tetraethyl lead, thank you both, this is just the sort of feedback I need.
Would a piston prop engine use fuel with the tetraethyl lead additive?
You say jets superseded piston prop engines. Does the jet engine evolved out of the piston prop in some way?
I'm thinking I need to have my Eagles use piston prop engines (if they do use fuel with tetraethyl lead) and have my rebel engineer come up with jet engines based off them somehow. Would that make sense?
High performance piston engines would need TEL or some other octane booster.
Jet engines could plausibly evolve from the turbo chargers used to boost piston engine performance. Add a combustion chamber to a turbo charger (and an afterburner if you want to go all out). In fact early jets bore a resemblance to turbo chargers, so there is likely some basis in fact to that.