In light of recent promotional statements from technology providers, governments, and academic and research institutions, this report looks at the proposed application of converting municipal waste into fuel, namely for gas turbine aircraft engines. General information on the concept of plastic to fuel (PTF) can be found in other publications (Rollinson and Oladejo, 2020; Schiegel, 2020). Gas turbine aircraft engine (jet) fuel, often called 'aviation kerosene', is a mid-crude oil distillation cut between gasoline and diesel, with hydrocarbons in the C 8 -C 16 range. It has a high concentration (70-85%) of paraffins, and contains naphthalenes and aromatics. Standards, however, are based on performance rather than composition (ASTM D1655). Acceptable aviation fuel must perform consistently and safely in extreme conditions: it must allow engine re-light at high altitude, and it must have low viscosity to ensure consistent atomisation (Blakey et al, 2011). Aviation fuel must also fulfil other functions, including hydraulics and balancing aircraft weight. One aerospace representative called it 'the Swiss army knife of aircraft', and warned' don't play with our fuel quality' (Jeuland, 2019). It is also currently accepted that any proposed plastic-or waste-derived aviation fuel must be ' drop in'; meaning that it must meet the current standards exactly (Bergthorson and Thomson, 2015). This is to avoid the logistical problem of airports handling multiple fuel types, and due to the long working life of commercial jet engines. Alarmingly, therefore, some are proposing the very technologies with a track record of failure at the simpler function of municipal waste disposal (gasification and pyrolysis) for the challenging and difficult task of creating highspecification aviation fuel (Gleis, 2012;Rollinson and Oladejo, 2020). In short: plastic-or waste-derived engine fuels have been failures in other sectors, and with aviation fuels, the bar is raised even higher.Moreover, the expectation that new engines could work with new fuel types is unlikely to be supported by the aviation industry due to the investment required to change fleets.