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The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 is a book by Robert B. Meyer. The foreword says that the narrative provides a historical background for the development of the engine, and a technical description that includes specifications and details of performance. The foreword also says that the book contains comments from men and women who flew planes powered by the Packard diesel.
The label of the engine on display in the National Air Museum reads that this first compression-ignition engine to power an airplane developed 225 hp at 1950 revolutions per minute. The label also says that in 1931 a production example powered a Bellanca airplane to an 84 hour and 33 minute nonrefueled duration record which has never been equalled. Richard Totten, an airplane mechanic, says that the Ford Trimotor was the poorest of the lot, inherently noisy and slow.
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- Author
- Robert B. Meyer
- Reading time
- About 1 hour
- Pages
- 44
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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