Rick supervised the refueling of his plane at the pier gasoline depot, a task he would not delegate to anyone else.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin
The atomic engines could go six months without refueling.
"Way of a Rebel"
Walter M. Miller
The third was accomplished last month, when a plane with a compression-ignition engine using furnace oil as a fuel circled over the beaches around Jacksonville for 84 hours and inscribed its performance upon the books as a world's record-the longest flight ever made without intermediate refueling.
"The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928"
Robert B. Meyer