MONOPLANE DRIVEN BY DEISEL ENGINE
BURNS ORDINARY FURNACE OIL. United Press Association—By Electri* Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 1.5 a.m. NEW YORK, May 16. Captain Woolson and Walter Lees, another pilot employed by the Packard company, came here in six hours 50 minutes from Detroit in a Stinson monoplane equipped with a Diesel power plant which they expect will revolutionise the economics of flying. Instead of gasolene at the rate of 10 to 12 gallons an hour, they burned ordinary furnace oil, cruising 95 miles per hour and consuming only eight gallons of fuel oil every hour. The oil used cost less than £1 compared with £5 that would have been paid for the highest gasolene to feed an ordinary motor of the same horsepower.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6911, 17 May 1929, Page 6
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