NEW AERO ENGINES

Grey River Argus, 19 June 1933, Page 5

NEW AERO ENGINES

DIESEL TYPE Proved Practicable (British Official Wireless). (Received Jum* 18 at 8 p.m.) RUGBY, Junp 16. Among machines in a Royal Air Fih-'i* display at Hendon in June will be two standard types of military aircraft. fitted with migines consuming heavy oil. which is loss ii. flammable, choaper and |es S bulky than petrol. Its advocates believe that the introduction of Dies'-I engines will mark a revo’iition in avaition. One of the niaehircs is fitte I with Rolls-Royce watercooled engines, and is the first Diesel aero machine- to pass thp Air Ministry type of tost involving 50 hours i‘u’l- - running The other plane has an air-i’oo'cd British Phoenix engine, the most powerful of its kind in tin- world. Al though weighing only 980 pounds complete, it produces 380 horsp power. It is a Wapiti machine in which this engine is fitted. The machine lias climbed !o over 16,000 feet, and the engine ha> been run for over 180 hours Another prominent exhibit in display. which, as usua l , will afford -a striking demonstration of progress in aviation research. i s a short six-engin-ed flying boat, weighing 33 tons, the largest military aircraft in tho world. The world's fastest military aircraft will bo soon in modified Hawker-Fairy aeroplanes, capab’o of doing over 260 mile< hourly.