which fuel is used in helicopter?

Question

which fuel is used in helicopter ? wheater it is diesel, gasoline or ATF

Answer 1

Helli uses both kerosene and avgas fuel depending on engine type.

Answer 2

Helicopter Fuel

Answer 3

Small piston helicopters such as the Robinson R22 or R44 use the same type of fuel that small piston airplanes use. In most cases this is 100LL AvGas (100 octane low lead). Larger turbine powered helicopters use Jet fuel. This is typically Jet A which is similar to kerosene.

Answer 4

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Jet A, A-1, and B are the most common fuels used in civilian helicopters. Jet B is a naphtha based fuel formulated for cold weather usage and is more dangerous to handle due to the low flash point. the military has a wide range of JP numbers. JP8 nearest to Jet A, JP4, to Jet B. JP5 is used on aircraft carriers in the place of JP4 due to the fire hazard in handling. In an emergency turbine engines can burn almost any thing that will burn and can be pumped through the fuel system. Before Prist became a common P & W recommended a few gallons of 100LL be added to kill bacteria that grows in jet fuel. GE CJ610 on the Lear 25 would burn straight 100LL for periods not to exceed 50 hours as the lead would coat the inside of the hot section..

Answer 5

There are two types of helicopters, (helos.) In the early days of rotorary wing flight, about the time that jets were still in development and only belonged to the military, they used the common piston engines that were available.

A good example is the Sikorsky 58, and the little Bell 47's you always see on M*A*S*H. They have piston engines and operate on standard, commonly available aviation gasoline with an octane rating of 100 that's boosted to that rating using 6 times as much tetraethyl lead as leaded gasoline.

Training helicopters, such as the Robinson R44 still use piston engines.

The larger and more luxurious helicopters produced today have turbine engines. The preferred fuel is Jet A, which is a highly refined Kerosene deriviative. They'll operate on about anything that's flammable, shortening the life of a very expensive engine. Diesel fuel, gasoline, camping stove fuel.

Due to a helicopter's low altitude, vapor pressure of the fuel typically isn't a problem, you run in to problems with EGT on turbine helicopters that burn more volatile fuels such as gasoline in their turbine engines.

Piston engines are more persnickety, (wow, that sounded like my Dad said it,) about fuel. They'll run on about any gasoline. They'll also run on Jet, diesel, or kerosene for a v-e-r-y limited time before the heat of combustion starts making holes in the pistons.

You do not wish to be in an aircraft when the fuel starts burning up the pistons. You especially do not wish to be in a rotary wing aircraft when the fuel starts burning up the pistons.

The fixed wing pilot's definition of autorotation is "the flight manuever designed to occupy the pilot's time as the aircraft rapidly plummets to the ground."

Answer 6

Most helicopters use turboshaft jet engines that utilize Jet A, Jet B, JP4, JP8 fuels.

See here for an example:
http://www.aoc.noaa.gov/aircraft_md500.htm

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/propulsion/q0033.shtml

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Answer 7

DEPENDS ON WHAT TYPE OF ENGINE IT HAS

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A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. Helicopters are classified as rotorcraft to distinguish them from fixed-wing aircraft because the helicopter derives its source of lift from the rotor blades rotating around a mast. In fact, the word 'helicopter' originates from the Greek words elikoeioas (helical or spiral) and pteron (wing or feather).[1]

The primary advantages of the helicopter are due to its rotor, which provides lift in a vertical direction, giving it the ability to take off and land vertically and to maintain a steady hover in the air over a single point on the ground. This allows the helicopter to land and take off from pinnacles and confined areas that airplanes are not able to take off from, including heliports in the middle of busy cities and rugged terrain in remote areas. The helicopter is used for rescue, medical evacuation and as an observation platform. Other operations that involve the use of helicopters are fire fighting, tours, as an aerial crane, logging, personnel transport, electronic news gathering, law enforcement, military and for pleasure.

Although helicopters were developed and built during the first half century of flight, some even reaching limited production, it wasn't until 1942 that a helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky became the first helicopter to enter full-scale production,[2] totalling over 400 copies. Even though most previous designs utilized more than one main rotor, it was the single main rotor with antitorque tail rotor configuration of this design that would come to be recognized worldwide as the helicopter.

Answer 8

Helicopters use ATF (aviation turbine fuel) which is highly refined form of kerosene... 125 octane.

Answer 9

fuel helicopter

Answer 10

Depends on the engine. Turbine helicopters use Jet-A, newer piston engines use 100LL gasoline. The older models with low compression gas engines can be STC'ed to use car gas.