On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:29 am in rec.boats.cruising Doug Dotson
wrote:

I assume you have to preheat your aircraft engine in cold temps. I had to
preheat mine in anything below 40F. I've never seen a diesel engine in
a plane either.

They are available, at least in Europe.
The advantage is that they run on turbine fuel rather than
avgas which is often hard to find.

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