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.

Doug
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"Roger Long" wrote in message
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There is a BIG difference between a DIESEL engine and a Gasoline engine,
when starting in cold weather.

I don't plan on starting my sailboat engine in weather as cold as I fly my
plane in. That's for sure!

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Roger Long

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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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.


Most of the dirigibles had diesel engines, and the German air force had
diesel powered planes including at least one fighter.

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevo...ther/ju86.html

Modern developments in metallurgy and turborcharging may bring the
diesel back into aero prominence

http://www.deltahawkengines.com/diesel00.htm

Just poking around finding interesting stuff on the wwweb. Beats working!

DSK