Lightweight Diesel for Airplanes Has High Cruising Range

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Capable of sustaining flight over a fifty-per-cent greater range than any gasoline engine, a lightweight Diesel airplane motor was recently tested before U. S. army officials and is ready for production. Developing 310 horsepower, the nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engine weighs only 653 pounds, little more than two pounds per horsepower. It burns fuel oil costing around six cents a gallon. The engine, designed by S. A. Guiberson, Jr., of Dallas, Tex., is the only American built Diesel approved by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. A test flight indicated it could take a plane to an altitude of 21,000 feet, while the same plane had a 17,000-foot ceiling with a gasoline engine. The Diesel, however, costs about five times as much as the gas engine.

Title (Dublin Core)
Lightweight Diesel for Airplanes Has High Cruising Range
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
en
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Lightweight Diesel for Airplanes Has High Cruising Range
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1940-09
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 3, 1940
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
407
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
United States of America