News, facts, and comments on the coming revolution for piston-engine aircraft. You are perhaps one of our subscribers who has sent a subscription form already some time ago and do not, or not anymore, receive our notifications. This is because you did not notify us of a change in your email address, or because you use a spam barrier which is blocking our notifications. If so, remember to lift it for incoming dieselair emails. We remind you that subscriptions are free of charge. Subscribers receive special notices, answers to their questions by email, and are notified when DieselAir is updated. subscribe to our feed News of October 31, 2011 This diesel airplane has an automobile engine which is not geared… Now read these performances! The Delvion DVD is a 3-seater light plane made in France, which has accumulated several years of tests and seems to be flying in the hands of a few enlightened owners. It is derived from the old and excellent family of Jodel light airplanes, best known of which is the Robin DR400. Its engine is the widespread Peugeot 2.1 liter (128 c. i.) 4 cyl. capable of 110 HP at 3,100rpm, which actuates the propeller directly without gear transmission. Our photos show the plane and the engine on its mount. This is an engine produced at the rate of 2,500 units per day, which weighs 66 Lbs more than a Lycoming O-360. Total weight with full load is 1,760 Lbs. Climb rate is an amazing 1,000 ft/mn thanks to the engine’s high torque. Cruise speed is 124Kts. Delvion claims a fuel rate at that speed of 2.7 Gal/h. Its designers Jean Delemontez and Jacques Vion have been working on the Delvion for a few years now, and we are waiting for more info to publish how many are flying today. Reminder: The very first Jodel airplane, called in the fifties the “Bebe Jodel” (baby), was a single seat plane using a 60 c. i. VW Beetle engine of 32HP, so the experience in adapting an auto engine to a plane is old for all designers who were associated with Jean Delemontez, the design engineer at the origin of the Jodel-Robin designs. Our third photo shows one Bebe Jodel among the multitude flying today. posted at 1:31 PM

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