Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return the courtesy. City Editor Bergener ordered another newsman to telephone the Cutter house. Amused, Col. Lindbergh answered, confirmed, amplified. Flying from Cleveland to Detroit, Col. Lindbergh furnished many another newspaper with good "copy" by visiting President Alvan Macauley of Packard Motor Co., trying out one of the new Diesel-powered Packard airplanes, driving a Packard speed car round a concrete track at 112 m.p.h...
...wrecked a brand new super-costly Farman,* strewed the highway with a tonneau full of fragile young ladies, escaped unscathed. Some three weeks ago, off the coast of Norway occurred Prince Ibrahim's latest, grandest bust-up. Five minutes after His Highness's famed quarter-million-dollar Diesel yacht Nazpermer ("Beautiful Lady") struck a rock, it sank (TIME, July 29). How it all happened, a Miss Margaret Woolf of Rochester, N. Y., cheerfully told Paris reporters last week. Excerpts...
...Last week Sir Douglas announced the personnel (27 men) of this expedition, which sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...
Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME you have stated that no patents are obtainable on the new Packard Diesel type airplane motor. We do not know the source of your information but the fact is that while the Diesel engine principle is very old, many problems had to be solved before a suitably light Diesel type motor could be built for aircraft use. These problems were solved by us and in many instances real inventions resulted. Therefore, instead of no patents being obtain able, this Packard engine will be very well protected by patents and there is every reason...
...costing $4.68 and weighing 365 Ib. A gasoline radial would have required for the same trip 91 gal. of gas, costing $27.30 and weighing 546 Ib. On last week's short flight the gasoline engine and its fuel would have been slightly lighter than Packard's diesel and its oil. On longer flights with more gallons of fuel needed the diesel combination would obviously be the lighter. Other accomplishments included reductions of fire hazard (oil requires higher temperature than gasoline for ignition) and radio interference (by the electrical wires of the gasoline engine's ignition system...