The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928
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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
- 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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