The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928
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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
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
History
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
Comments
Analysis
Advantages
Disadvantages
Appendix
1. Agreement between Hermann I. A. Dorner and Packard Motor Car Company
2. Packard to Begin Building Diesel Plane Engines Soon
3. Effect of Oxygen Boosting on Power and Weight
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