VOLUME 1
NUMBER 2
The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard
Model DR-980 of 1928 _Robert B. Meyer_
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM . WASHINGTON, D.C.
[Illustration: Frontispiece--President Herbert Hoover (in front of
microphones) presenting the Collier Trophy to Alvan Macauley (nearest
engine), President of the Packard Motor Car Co., on March 31, 1932
(although the award was for 1931). Also present were Hiram Bingham, U.S.
Senator from Connecticut (nearest pillar), Clarence M. Young, Director
of Aeronautics, U.S. Department of Commerce (between Macauley and
Hoover), and Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Ocean (between Macauley and the engine). In the foreground is a cutaway
Packard diesel aeronautical engine and directly in front of Senator
Bingham is the Collier Trophy, America's highest aviation award.
(Smithsonian photo A48825.)]