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JP-7

Jet fuel formulation for certain supersonic aircraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Turbine Fuel Low Volatility JP-7, commonly known as JP-7 is a specialized type of jet fuel developed at Pratt and Whitney by master chemist Clarence Brown (CB) Eichman in 1955 for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for use in its reconnaissance aircraft, the Lockheed A-12, and subsequently for aircraft with similar high speed performance, the Lockheed YF-12 and Lockheed SR-71. It was also used for the higher speed Boeing X-51 Waverider.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where JP-7, fuel and formulation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as jet fuel formulation for certain supersonic aircraft. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “JP-7” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.