first airplane flight using a diesel engine

[drtrox]

Ran across this bit of info earlier today...





September 19, 1928

The first airplane flight using a diesel engine was made. The engine, manufactured by the Packard Motor Car Co. , was used in a Stinson Detroiter Airplane. It was an air-cooled, 9-cylinder, 225 horse-power radial engine and weighed 510 pounds.





Don Troxell

 

[DieselB59]

I saw something of the like in "Wings of the Luftwaffe" a couple years back. And they were smoking black too!

 

[Grey Wolf]

A friend of mine had about twenty of the Guiberson Radial Diesels that he donated to trade schools. Check these:



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