DIESEL USED IN FLYING
WILL REVOLUTIONISE AIR ECONOMICS HIGH SPEED GOT CHEAPLY (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Thurs. 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 the gasoline rate of 10 to 12 gallons an hour, they burned ordinary furnace-oil, cruising at 95 miles an hour and consuming only eight gallons of fuel oil every hour. The oil used cost less than £l, compared with £5 that would be paid for the highest gasoline feed of an ordinary motor of the same horse-power.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 11
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119DIESEL USED IN FLYING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 11
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