The Germans were famous for building diesel airplanes before and during WWII. Jumo engines. Some were quite big.

I wanted to put Zoche or Deltahawk two-stroke diesel in the plane I'm building, but they keep upping the price out of my range.

I'm going to use a Mazda rotary instead.

Jet A is basically kerosene which we know diesel engines will just run fine on.

Current companies looking at offering diesel aircraft engines are:

Zoche
Thiebert
Deltahawk
Continental

I'm sure there are others I am forgetting.

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Michael LaFleur

'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
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