Ethanol fueled aircraft for law enforcement

bentstrider

Just a thought I believe could work.
We gotta have some way of keeping the land from going completely "good, bad and the ugly.".

gg3 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:22 am Post subject:

Interesting.

Public safety & emergency applications will always have a priority on petroleum allocation. Ground vehicles can readily be converted to other fuels, i.e. police cars running on alcohol, fire engines running on biodiesel, thereby stretching the budget to afford aircraft-grade petroleum products for such things as patrol helicopters.

That being said, a coworker of mine was recently commenting favorably on some kind of post-petroleum fuel application for light airplanes. At the time I wasn't thinking of law enforcement & similar applications, nor was I thinking of helicopters, so I didn't listen with those applications in mind.

There's something reassuring about the buzz of a patrol copter spotlighting a fleeing badguy from the sky, or a rescue copter speeding an accident victim to the hospital, or air-tankers dousing forest fires in a kind of aerial bombardment by water. I don't think we're going to have to give up on these in the foreseeable future.

bentstrider · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:11 am Post subject:

Not to mention "roving bandito gang" extermination.
To avoid a "Postman" scenario with a Holnist Army, keep a modified fuel Apache or Cobra or two on alert.
And mow down the advancing bandit/army gang with a microwave weapon on board. Or stick to the good 'ole 30 mm cannon.