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altitude-compensating

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Many small recreational aircraft still use altitude-compensating carburetors that contain aneroids that act on needle valves to compensate for altitude.

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Many small recreational aircraft still use altitude-compensating carburetors that contain aneroids that act on needle valves to compensate for altitude.

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Many small recreational aircraft still use altitude-compensating carburetors that contain aneroids that act on needle valves to compensate for altitude.

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Early aircraft mechanical fuel injection systems contained an altitude-compensating aneroid, but I doubt early automotive models did.

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So, an old automobile retrofitted with an aircraft altitude-compensating carburetor may very well compensate for altitude better than an early fuel injected automobile.

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Though, I assume only a handful of cars have ever been retrofitted with altitude-compensating carburetors.

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Some Rotax two-stroke engines running pre-mix have been used in ultralight aircraft, so I think appropriately sized altitude-compensating carburetors designed to run a petrol-lubricant mixture may be commercially available.

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Many small recreational aircraft still use altitude-compensating carburetors that contain aneroids that act on needle valves to compensate for altitude.