VOLUME 1 · NUMBER 2
Reading edition
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 Washington, D.C., 20402—Price 60 cents