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Title: The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928

Author: Robert B. Meyer

Release Date: January 20, 2010 [EBook #31023]

Language: English

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SMITHSONIAN ANNALS OF FLIGHT

VOLUME 1
NUMBER 2

The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard
Model DR-980 of 1928 _Robert B. Meyer_

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM . WASHINGTON, D.C.

[Illustration: Frontispiece--President Herbert Hoover (in front of
microphones) presenting the Collier Trophy to Alvan Macauley (nearest
engine), President of the Packard Motor Car Co., on March 31, 1932
(although the award was for 1931). Also present were Hiram Bingham, U.S.
Senator from Connecticut (nearest pillar), Clarence M. Young, Director
of Aeronautics, U.S. Department of Commerce (between Macauley and
Hoover), and Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Ocean (between Macauley and the engine). In the foreground is a cutaway
Packard diesel aeronautical engine and directly in front of Senator
Bingham is the Collier Trophy, America's highest aviation award.
(Smithsonian photo A48825.)]

SMITHSONIAN ANNALS OF FLIGHT

VOLUME 1 . NUMBER 2

The First Airplane Diesel Engine:
Packard Model DR-980 of 1928

ROBERT B. MEYER
_Curator of Flight Propulsion_

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D.C. . 1964

The following microfilm prints are available at the Smithsonian
Institution:

"The Packard Diesel Aircraft Engine--A New Chapter in Transportation
Progress." An advertising brochure produced by the Packard Motor Car
Company in 1930, illustrated, 17 pages.

Fifty-Hour Test of the Engine by the Packard Company, 1930. Text and
charts, 14 pages.

Fifty-Hour Test of the Engine by the U.S. Navy in 1931: Text and charts,
26 pages.

Packard In