High flying diesels

[XLerate]

Hi all!

Stumbled on an interesting & rather surprising website:

http://www.dieselair.com/

Seems there's some high flying sky boys of a similar mind to us! I'd heard of diesel airplanes, but didn't know there was a website dedicated to them.

Obviously weight is a serious thing with aircraft so the info may cross over to our bikes?

[BHNZ]

Check out 'Diesel Air Ltd' a UK company - 92kg engine producing 100hp @ 2500 rpm! Torque would be unreal! So would the price. My apologies for not putting a link thingy in this note, I'm a bit illiterate with computers. Cheers, Brian H. PS, google dair aero engine

[coachgeo]

Here ya go

http://www.dair.co.uk/

[Stuart]

Interesting - shame about the limited revs and the 2 stroke element. Reliable though

[zarquon]

http://www.dair.co.uk/

Well ... I introduced them more than 10 Years ago on my very first website about dieselmotorcycles (ok, in german language).
It can still be viewed in the waybackmachine on archive .org
http://web.archive.org/web/200305112040 ... oren.shtml

There is a very simple reason nobody has used such a flying diesel for building a motorcycle. Ask for their price.
The "prices" Site on www.dair.co.uk is simply plain white.
If you take a look at www.deltahawkengines.com, they want you to give them $62,500 for an engine kit that can be build in an airplane.

[andrewaust]

Nice links, would have loved to taken a Diesel plane for a fly, I'm no longer current, although it could happen. Why they never gave it a go years ago I don't know, weight would be one thing I guess, but the Continental engines are no lightweights anyway.


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