[Vwdiesel] Diesel Aircraft

[Jim Arnott]

This just in:

  Diamond Aircraft continues to turn heads with a piston twin that
appears to put the fuel-economy figures of the most miserly singles and
the performance data of the most spirited high-performance piston
aircraft to shame. The company released test data on its DA42 Twin Star
earlier this week. The all-composite, diesel-powered aircraft ripped
along at 201 knots TAS on 80-percent power at 18,000 feet. But perhaps
even more startling was that at max economy setting, it held a
respectable 110 knots IAS using just three gallons per hour of Jet A or
diesel. That's far less than a Cessna 152 would use at the same speed.