The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928
by Robert B. Meyer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Meyer, Robert B.
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Airplanes -- Motors (Diesel)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31023
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31023
- Release Date
- January 20, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.SMITHSONIAN ANNALS OF FLIGHT — VOLUME 1 · NUMBER 2 — The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 — Robert B. Meyer Curator of Flight Propulsion — SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION · NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM WASHINGTON, D.C. · 1964
- 3.Contents
- 4.Acknowledgments
- 5.Foreword
- 6.Introduction — History
- 7.Description — Specifications — Operating Cycles — Brief Analysis of Action in a Four-Cycle Gasoline Engine — Similar Action in the Packard-Diesel Aircraft Engine — Figure 21.—Operating cycles. (Smithsonian photo A48846.) — Weight-Saving Features — Diesel Cycle Features — Development
- 8.Comments
- 9.Analysis — Advantages — Disadvantages
- 10.Appendix
- 11.1. Agreement between Hermann I. A. Dorner and Packard Motor Car Company
- 12.2. Packard to Begin Building Diesel Plane Engines Soon
- 13.3. Effect of Oxygen Boosting on Power and Weight
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