vtsnowedin
Elite Member
OK so I'm behind the times but note that the design problem they are crowing about solving is the weight problem.So at least I used to be right.
What does horsepower actually mean?
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OK so I'm behind the times but note that the design problem they are crowing about solving is the weight problem.So at least I used to be right.
Egon
Epic Contributor
ALVAN MACAULEY &
CHARLES LINDBERGH
PACKARD DIESEL POWERED
STINSON "DETROITER", X7654, 1929 *
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* Alvan Macauley (left), and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
with the original Packard diesel-powered Stinson "Detroiter", 1929
(Smithsonian photo A48319D.) *
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ALVAN MACAULEY
PRESIDENT OF THE PACKARD MOTOR CAR CO.
Diesels have been seen in aircraft for many years.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
PACKARD DIESEL POWERED
STINSON "DETROITER", X7654, 1929 *
* *
* Alvan Macauley (left), and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
with the original Packard diesel-powered Stinson "Detroiter", 1929
(Smithsonian photo A48319D.) *
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ALVAN MACAULEY
PRESIDENT OF THE PACKARD MOTOR CAR CO.
Diesels have been seen in aircraft for many years.
vtsnowedin
Elite Member
And it was such a success that they built how many thousands of them?
OK OK I should not have used the word never without doing a complete and through research gouing way beyond Goggle.
I AM WRONG:ashamed:
OK OK I should not have used the word never without doing a complete and through research gouing way beyond Goggle.
I AM WRONG:ashamed:
Egon
Epic Contributor
Not really. There sure were not many and few that were real attention getters.