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GE Fuel Additive Cuts Flying Costs

Company estimates that the Army saved $69 million over 10 years by using the product at Fort Rucker.

By Mark Huber • Contributor

May 7, 2015

A long-term U.S. Army study has validated the ability of GE Power & Water’s +100 liquid fuel additive to significantly cut operating costs in a variety of rotorcraft. In 2003, the U.S. Army granted a waiver for the Army Aviation Warfighting Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., to begin conducting long-term feasibility studies on GE’s +100 fuel additive, which had been in use by the U.S. Air Force since the mid-1990s.

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