Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 8 | New Diesel Engine Replaces Three Gasoline Motors in Airplane Test

New Diesel Engine Replaces Three Gasoline Motors in Airplane Test BERLIN DERLIN April 22 iP The The Junkers Junkers Junk ers company's new Diesel airplane motor whose builders claim for ila IIa il II ila a wide margin of advantage over the gasoline engine drove dro a pas nine enger monoplane in a successful trial flight light from tho the Tempelhof airport airport air air- port today It had been built into a a. ship ordinarily ordinarily or or- powered by three gasoline motors Officials of the transport ministry and the Lufthansa air line ine were aboard for the test The engine en en- gine is to go into the Lufthansa extensive freight service sel and after tests will wm be mounted In l passenger planes It has no spark plugs or other electrical ignition Compressed air fed from a special tank starts the motor and in flight night a small lary iary Diesel recharges the tank Com Corn bustion in the cylinders takes r place when a Jet of fuel oil is sprayed Into a temperature raised by high com corn to degrees Fahrenheit It The motor weighs 1760 pounds and its builders say It will Increase the thet t flying range by 40 per cent and will wil double the pay load One of Its greatest advantages the builders say is elimination of the thc fire fre hazard Even if the fuel leaks i Itis it Is so heavy that It cannot be Ignited with a match and never spontaneously spontaneously forms explosive mixtures with the air about it The fuel consumption It is said Is about two thirds as much per flyIng flyIng flying fly fly- ing hour as s that o of the gasoline mo mo- tor Tills This would me mean n that enough fuel to drive a gasoline propelled plane from New York to Dublin would carry earn the Diesel powered ship a as far as Moscow