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When will a diesel be available for my aircraft? |
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News, facts, and comments on the coming revolution for piston-engine aircraft.In 1998, one diesel engine flew on a converted airplane for the first time since 1945. Today, close to 4,000 singles and twins are flying. This is the beginning of a worldwide trend which will eventually allow a rebirth of the piston-engined aircraft, around new specs and new missions. DieselAir Research, Inc., the publisher of The DieselAir Newsletter, offers strategic intelligence services to the aircraft industry, its suppliers and its customers who ambition to benefit from this global change of paradigm which will mean new markets, new concepts, new services, new materials and components… You may be interested in our services if your firm designs and/or manufactures aircraft and components, aero engines, avionics, propellers and engine components, fuel systems or additives, advanced materials, or industry specific machinery for manufacturing of these; or provides aviation services such as fuel production or distribution; flight training, aircraft chartering, maintenance and operations (FBO’s); or airport management and design, traffic control, hangar, materials handling and storage equipment; or consulting and financial services for these industries; or advertising, sales promotion, trade shows, specialized publications. To know more, send a confidential email inquiry to Dr. Eng. André Teissier-duCros at atc@geanoverseas.com News of October 12, 2008Thielert bids receivedA savior for diesel propulsion manufacturer Thielert Aircraft Engines may be about to emerge. A spokesman for the German company's administrator says ‘several’ prospective bidders have submitted letters of intent, with "purchase prices within the range the administrator is expecting" a statement on the sale is expected ‘shortly’. A total of 24 potential investors had by late July signed a confidentiality agreement to receive financial details on the company. However, Diamond Aircraft, Thielert's biggest customer and the only general aviation manufacturer to fit its Centurion engine as original equipment, rules out taking over its former supplier. It comes as Austro Engine, the engine maker set up by Diamond, prepares to deliver its two-liter Jet A1-powered AE 300, an alternative to the Centurion. The Austrian company's marketing and sales director Markus Hergeth expects European Aviation Safety Agency certification this month. There are 2,000 Thielert engines powering Diamond s DA40 and DA42 aircraft, retrofitted Pipers and Cessnas, and versions of General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicle. (By Murdo Morrison, Flight International 9/08) posted at 11:36 AM |
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