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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clarification: Only piston aircraft require leaded fuel. Which is unfortunately a pretty big part of the general aviation market, but similarly sized turboprops do also exist (though are more expensive) and it doesn't apply to modern commercial aviation at all.

[โ€“] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

There is an increasing number of piston aircraft that have Diesel engines, and run on jet fuel.