If American Airline planes don't use gasoline, what type of fuel do they use?

Question

If American Airline planes don't use gasoline, what type of fuel do they use?

Answer 1

Jet airplanes run on jet fuel, which is kerosene with some additives.

Answer 2

jet fuel, it is the same thing as diesel fuel or kerosene, Jets could be made to run on gasoline but kerosene is used because they burn so much fuel that gasoline would be cost prohibitive

Answer 3

Nuclear fuel.

Answer 4

They use Jet-A which is a fancy way of saying kerosene. They can use just about anything that will burn as long as it doesn't have a flash point below that of kerosene. Gasoline would not work well in a jet engine as it would explode. Think of a jet engine as a glorified oil furnace with a really neat chimney.

Answer 5

Like the great majority of jet aircraft, they use a Kerosene-based fuel.  Specifically, "Jet A".  It is similar to diesel fuel.  wikipedia has a lot more information on this than I could possibly provide.

Answer 6

if it is a regular propeller driven plane it uses some sort of aviation gas usually about 102 -109 octane.  A jet powered engine uses jp4 jet fuel all cost about 5-6 dollars a gallon

Answer 7

Aviation kerosene.

Answer 8

'Jet A', is like Kerosene (with different additives, specifications and tighter controls). Jet A weighs about 6.7 lbs/gal verses 6.0 lbs/gal for gasoline. Because it is heavier it more energy per gal but needs higher pressure and temps to burn. 'Jet A' is specially made just for Jets and has particular specifications for flying in jet engines at high altitudes and cold temps. You especially want the fuel to not have water suspended in it, as it could freeze in the fuel, so tight controls in manufacture and distribution are needed. The military has their own blend of  Jet fuel for even more demanding use.

It all comes from a OIL base. Additives and refining makes for the different grades of fuels and products. During refining you get heavy fuel oils like to heat homes are at one other end. Than there is diesel, kerosene (Jet fuel), Petrol (gasoline) and than NG (natural gas) which is not normally a liquid. When NG is cooled and pressurized enough it becomes LNG (liquid natural gas). At the very bottom of the process you get asphalt, tar, paraffin wax. Also lubricating oils are produced by crude oil stock and additives from the refining process.