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by inferiorhuman 2356 days ago
Airplane engines are gas!

Sure, small ones with piston engines. Sure. Most anything running a turbine uses Jet-A which is closer to kerosene / diesel than gasoline.

If you're leaking fuel you've got bigger problems than how to safely heat up the engine.

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Jet aircraft were little-used during WWII.

(There were some, late in the war, but only just. Otherwise, all aircraft were piston-driven, running avgas, a/k/a petrol / gasoline.)