Amazing:
A new twin prop (diamond da42) has an endurance of over 12 hours and a range of 2500 nautical miles.
Only 22 litres per hour fuel consumption at an average of 152 Knots....
No fuel price problem here...
Estimated buying price for a new model with glass cockpit delivery end of 2005/ beginning 2006 : +/- 400.000 euro
see the following url for more details:
http://www.diamond-air.at/en/press/pres ... /40820.htm
Diesel/A1 twin prop diamond DA42 flies across Atlantic
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for the group some data:
the Thielert Centurion 1.7 engine is build around a daimler block - which the manufacturer doesn't want to acknowledge.
There is a 4 cylinder version already in serial production and a V8 engine in development stage. On diesel.
The manufacturer is Thielert from Germany.
www.thielert.com
They have a manufacturing plant in Hamburg and Lichtenstein, former East-Germany (where there is a lot of new automotive manufacturing thanks to heavy state subsidies)
Thielert is a subcontractor for parts (camshafts, crankshafts, cylinder heads) for sport engine manufacturers, such as Daimler, Porsche.
They have state of the art machinery for turning, milling, grinding, deep hole drilling (to get weight out the camshafts and provide internal oil cooling)
Astonishing is that the oilpan for the serial production 4-cylinder is made by milling a solid block of aluminium instead of using high quality aluminium (sand)castings, as from the Cosworth Foundry UK.
There seems to be something going on in the small world of diesel-engines-for-airplanes. The German company Zoche ( www.zoche.de) has developed also an aero piston engine, but with a complete different lay out. (radial engine instead of line) Zoche seems not te be able to enter serial production. Zoche probably wants to work on the old aircooled Porshe block, for which they have the entire gravity die + shell core casting facility.
Belgian aircraft manufacturer Lambert Aircraft ( http://www.lambert-aircraft.com) has also shifted its interest from the Zoche engine towards the Thielert Centurion 1.7 engine.
I hope the details give the group some satisfaction in the eternal quest to more knowledge.
the Thielert Centurion 1.7 engine is build around a daimler block - which the manufacturer doesn't want to acknowledge.
There is a 4 cylinder version already in serial production and a V8 engine in development stage. On diesel.
The manufacturer is Thielert from Germany.
www.thielert.com
They have a manufacturing plant in Hamburg and Lichtenstein, former East-Germany (where there is a lot of new automotive manufacturing thanks to heavy state subsidies)
Thielert is a subcontractor for parts (camshafts, crankshafts, cylinder heads) for sport engine manufacturers, such as Daimler, Porsche.
They have state of the art machinery for turning, milling, grinding, deep hole drilling (to get weight out the camshafts and provide internal oil cooling)
Astonishing is that the oilpan for the serial production 4-cylinder is made by milling a solid block of aluminium instead of using high quality aluminium (sand)castings, as from the Cosworth Foundry UK.
There seems to be something going on in the small world of diesel-engines-for-airplanes. The German company Zoche ( www.zoche.de) has developed also an aero piston engine, but with a complete different lay out. (radial engine instead of line) Zoche seems not te be able to enter serial production. Zoche probably wants to work on the old aircooled Porshe block, for which they have the entire gravity die + shell core casting facility.
Belgian aircraft manufacturer Lambert Aircraft ( http://www.lambert-aircraft.com) has also shifted its interest from the Zoche engine towards the Thielert Centurion 1.7 engine.
I hope the details give the group some satisfaction in the eternal quest to more knowledge.
You can now already use lijnzaad fuel in your car.