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News, facts, and comments on the coming revolution for piston-engine aircraft.News of August 26, 2006Andre Teissier-duCros will make his aero diesel conference at the EAA Virginia Fly-In...Andre Teissier-duCros, Publisher of DieselAir Newsletter, is invited to make his presentation on on the coming of Aerodiesel engines to general aviation aircraft to the attendees of the 10th Annual Virginia Regional EAA Fly-in, scheduled for September 30 - October 1 at the Dinwiddie County Airport (PTB) near Petersburg, Virginia. It is the only EAA regional fly-in on the East Coast. Expectations are we will have 500 to 600 aircraft fly in and about 5,000 people in attendance during the weekend. You can also order the CDRom of Andre s presentation (PowerPoint) from http://www.lulu.com/content/336659 Judy Sparks, the Fly-in Manager, handles vendor requests and will mail a vendor pack if anyone is interested in a booth. The web site is www.vaeaa.org. Also contact DeWitt (Dee) Whittington, Public Relations Chairman, Virginia Regional EAA Fly-In, 406 N Mulberry Steet, Richmond, VA 23220, (804) 358-4333 phone and fax, email deewhittington@vaeaa.org website www.vaeaa.org "Furthering Aerospace Education". We are hoping that FlyJetA, SMA's Florida customer service center, will bring a demo 182SMA to the event and you will encourage them by requesting a demo at: flyjeta@yahoo.com posted by Deena at 10:50 PM Round the world trip with a DA 42 Thielert dieselPress info received: Lichtenstein/Saxony, August 21, 2006 - Last Saturday, August 19, 2006, the World Flight for Hearing team s Diamond DA42 Twin Star, fitted with two Centurion diesel aircraft engines manufactured by Thielert Aircraft Engines, arrived at Stockholm Barkarby airport in Sweden, where their expedition began, having successfully completed its round-the-world flight. The team, led by the hearing-impaired pilot Johan Hammarström, set off on March 15, 2006 to demonstrate what hearing-impaired people can achieve with the help of modern technical hearing aids. This was also the first circumnavigation of the earth with a diesel engine powered aircraft. On this flight, which consisted of several lengthy stages, the pilots were able to make use of the fuel economy and reliability of the diesel engine. In all, the Swedish team covered 32,000 nautical miles (59,000 km), using only 8,000 liters (approx. 2,200 Gal.) of fuel. The longest stage of the flight from Hilo, HA, USA to Crecent City, CA, USA covered a distance of 2,140 nautical miles and took 12 hours and 53 minutes. Thielert Aircraft Engines congratulates the pilots Johan Hammarström, Martin Håkansson and Henrik Ejderholm on their spectacular round-the-world flight and wishes them many happy landings. For more information about World Flight for Hearing please contact Martin Håkansson, martin@worldflightforhearing.com, phone +46-733 442208 or visit the expedition web site www.worldflightforhearing.com. For information about the Centurion aircraft engines please visit: www.centurion-engines.com. Helbingstr. 64-66 22047 Hamburg Germany http://www.thielert.com from Sebastian Wentzler, Head of Corporate Communications. Comment: Diesel engine will mean that flying from America to Europe becomes affordable. The range available means three legs only. To read more, please make a note that the presentation: "Why Aero-Diesel Engines are coming to the US and world General Aviation Market, and what it will mean for you and the average pilot and aircraft owner" on PowerPoint Andre Teissier-duCros is currently making to EAA Chapters and in Fly-Ins, with some updates, is available on Lulu and can be procured by clicking: "http://www.lulu.com/content/336659" posted by Deena at 4:21 AM News of August 09, 2006SMA Engine OK Helps Tule River Take OffPorterville-based Tule River Aero-Industries plans to hire new workers and is anticipating a boost in business since gaining approval to install a new type of plane engine. The aircraft repair and sales company owned by the Tule River tribe has had an agreement for at least two years to be the West Coast distributor -- one of five distributors in North America -- of an engine manufactured by the French company SMA Engines. The new diesel engine is billed as cleaner burning, cheaper to operate and running on jet fuel. Tule River Aero-Industries had been waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration to give its approval. The agency granted it late last month. The company can now begin retrofitting four-passenger Cessna 182 Q and 182 R planes with the new engine. "In the aviation community, this is big news," company spokesman Dave Farrar said. "Our phones have been ringing off the hook the last couple of days." The company has five oral commitments from customers who want the new engine installed and interest from several others, including a border patrol agency that likes the increased flying time the engine gets, said President and CEO Rick Rossner. Executives also are excited about the impact it will have on the company, which employs 15 people. It had laid off a small number of workers more than a year ago. "It's going to have to grow," Farrar said. "We won't be able to handle it with the people we've got." Rossner estimated that the company will hire six to 10 people within the next six months. Customers will spend $77,000 for the company to install the new engine. It is only certified for certain models manufactured between 1979 and 1986, although other models and older planes are expected to be approved for installation soon, Rossner said. "The engine itself is completely different," Farrar said. Cessnas traditionally run on aviation gasoline. The SMA engine is designed to run on jet fuel and use about 45% less fuel. Jet fuel usually is less expensive than aviation gas -- sometimes 70 cents a gallon less, Rossner said. Pilots can save $160,000 over the life of the engine, Farrar said. The fuel also is more environmentally friendly. It doesn't have any lead or carbon monoxide emissions; aviation gas does, he said. The new engine also means less work for the aircraft owner, said Charles Lloyd, a Cessna pilot and contributing editor of the Kansas-based Cessna Flyer Association magazine. "The engine is going to require less maintenance," he said. "There's a good chance it's going to be more reliable." The engine doesn't require spark plugs and a carburetor like existing engines, he said. Tule River Aero-Industries will replace everything from the firewall forward, including the propeller. Lloyd, however, said it could take a while for the new engines to take off. "It's going to start off slow, and it will gain momentum," he said. "It may be five years or 10 years or 20 years." That may be because it costs aircraft owners about half as much to overhaul an engine as it does to replace it with the new one, he said. Tule River Aero-Industries, which opened in October 2000, is one of the noncasino projects started by the Tule River Economic Development Corp., which owns a 40-acre industrial park. The new engine helps fulfill some of the corporation's goals for development and jobs in the area. "This is really the future of our business," Rossner said. (Fresno Bee) posted by Deena at 5:04 PM News of August 01, 2006Oshkosh: Thielert lands US re-engining deal for the Cessna 172By Jeffrey Decker, Flight International, at Oshkosh - German diesel manufacturer Thielert Aircraft Engines has broken into the US flying school market, with a deal to re-engine 55 Cessna 172s operated by American Flyers. The first aircraft to be converted to Thielert's Centurion 1.7 jet-fuel piston engine was displayed at Oshkosh. Thielert has already sold its jet-fuel engines to flight schools in Europe, Africa and China, but the sale to the largest flying training provider in North America is a critical breakthrough into the US market. The modern diesel-cycle engines offer substantial fuel savings over existing avgas-fuelled powerplants. The company has also received US supplemental type certification for the Centurion 1.7 in the Piper PA-28-161 Cherokee. US approval on the -140, -150, -151, -160 and -180 models is pending and Thielert sees a North American market to re-engine 1,000 PA-28-series aircraft a year, mainly for flying schools. US certification on the Diamond DA40 and Robin DR400 is expected to be received by year-end, with approval of the more powerful Centurion 4.0 planned for next year on the Cessna 206, 340, 414 and 421. To understand better the impact of this event, Subscribers, click here. posted by Deena at 3:15 AM |
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