Posted on Jun 26, 2016
Nazi Germany: The Lippisch P.13a Mach 2.6 range & fuelled by coal
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"After the war, Lippisch, working with American aircraft designer Convair, developed and tested the XF-92 based on his designs, leading to the eventual adoption of the F-102 Delta Dagger and its successor, the F-106 Delta Dart."
Nazi Germany: The Lippisch P.13a Mach 2.6 range & fuelled by coal
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WWII World War Two
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Thanks for sharing Capt Seid Waddell. Did not realize that the "Lippisch P.13a" was able to reach Mach 2.6 and that it was fuelled by coal. That made sense in WWII Germany where petroleum fuels were scarce.
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Capt Seid Waddell
LTC Stephen F., a lot of people also don't remember that the Germans were able to make oil from coal during WWII, and that the practice was used again in South Africa when they were under a world-wide embargo due to their apartheid policies.
"Coal-to-oil technology dates back to the 1920s, when two German chemists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, developed a process to convert coal into a gas and then use it to make synthetic fuels. Coal-to-oil technology helped fuel the Nazi war machine, which lacked access to sufficient crude oil. International oil companies also experimented with the process but put it aside because oil was cheaper."
http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2006/08/17/South-Africa-has-a-way-to-make-oil-from-coal/stories/ [login to see] 78
"Coal-to-oil technology dates back to the 1920s, when two German chemists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, developed a process to convert coal into a gas and then use it to make synthetic fuels. Coal-to-oil technology helped fuel the Nazi war machine, which lacked access to sufficient crude oil. International oil companies also experimented with the process but put it aside because oil was cheaper."
http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2006/08/17/South-Africa-has-a-way-to-make-oil-from-coal/stories/ [login to see] 78
South Africa has a way to make oil from coal
SECUNDA, South Africa -- Every day, conveyor belts haul about 120,000 metric tons of coal into an industrial complex here two hours east of Johannesburg. The facility -- resembling a nuclear power plant, with concrete silos looming over nearby potato farms -- superheats the coal to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It adds steam and oxygen, cranks up the pressure, and pushes the coal through a series of chemical reactions. Then it spits out...
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