Aircraft fuel portmanteau

Usage examples of avgas.

He still had the cap in his hand, and black avgas smoked where it glugged from the spout of the jerrican to go slopping toward the lip of the bank.

Commander Houser was understandably nervous about having that much avgas in his boat.

You plan to stand up in a rubber boat on the high seas and manhandle a fifty-five-gallon drum of avgas up onto the wing of a Catalina?

Guadalcanal by tossing fifty-five-gallon drums of avgas over the side of those old four-stacker War One destroyers and letting the tide float it ashore.

He left the bridge and stood on the deck of PT-197 watching the jerry cans of avgas being loaded into the rubber boats.

Major Dillon had not one but three stopwatches, all hanging from cords around his neck, and then, as the ferrying of the avgas to the Catalina was carried out, understood what he was doing with them.

Burning avgas illuminated the southern slope of the hill like noonday.

The tiny figures of running men on the exposed slope of the hill were lit by the flames of burning avgas, which cast dark spiderlike shadows that scampered ahead of each man.

Renamo used mainly women porters, trained since girlhood to carry weights on their cads That quantity of avgas was sufficient to keep the Hind flying for almost two hundred hours, and by then there would be a good chance of capturing a Frelimo fuel tanker, either on the railway line or on one of the roads nearer the coast that were still open to traffic.

I was offered this rush job, lots of money, a little danger, and all the avgas I could use free of charge.

Exeter to refuel and pick up some emergency avgas, canned aviation fuel.

Turnbull was pouring a careful measure of avgas on the weed, when the distant sound of a revving engine and harshly clashing gears attracted their attention.

Burning avgas swept back along the fuselage and through the ragged hole made by the first explosion.

We used the opportunity to have more avgas and plastic jerry cans delivered.

Ram6n ducked behind a drum of Avgas and shouted across the hangar at Michael as he sat at the controls of the aircraft.