The First Airplane Diesel Engine:
Packard Model DR-980 of 1928
ROBERT B. MEYER
_Curator of Flight Propulsion_
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D.C. . 1964
The following microfilm prints are available at the Smithsonian
Institution:
"The Packard Diesel Aircraft Engine--A New Chapter in Transportation
Progress." An advertising brochure produced by the Packard Motor Car
Company in 1930, illustrated, 17 pages.
Fifty-Hour Test of the Engine by the Packard Company, 1930. Text and
charts, 14 pages.
Fifty-Hour Test of the Engine by the U.S. Navy in 1931: Text and charts,
26 pages.
Packard Instructional Manual, 1931. Illustrated, 74 pages.
"The Packard Diesel Engine," Aviation Institute of U.S.A. Pamphlet No.
21-A, 1930. Illustrated, 32 pages.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing
Office