{"id":191021,"date":"2009-10-03T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/03\/aero-diesel-video-pr0n\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T10:25:00","slug":"aero-diesel-video-pr0n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/03\/aero-diesel-video-pr0n\/","title":{"rendered":"Aero Diesel Video Pr0n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avweb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avweb.com\/avwebflash\/exclusivevids\/ExclusiveVideo_AustroDieselEngine_AviationConsumerAnalysis_201211-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS\">produced two videos<\/a> on the operation and description on Diamond&#8217;s Austro AE300 engines.<\/p>\n<p>The nickel tour is that they are heavier than Thielert&#8217;s engines, but are promised to be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">much<\/span> more durable.<\/p>\n<p>A typical design decision is that the Austro has a heavier cast iron block, but this allows for the engine to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering why they didn&#8217;t sleeve an aluminum block.  That would appear to me to give the best of both worlds, though my experience with sleeved engines is locomotive engines, which are sleeved iron blocks, I might be missing something.<\/p>\n<p>They are promising a 1000 hour TBO, and hope to extend that significantly as Diamond gets information from the field on the first engines..<\/p>\n<p>Engine Analysis<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zHlFyxLbOYk&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Flight Evaluation<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztySwZ3eM-Y&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztySwZ3eM-Y&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztySwZ3eM-Y&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztySwZ3eM-Y&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ztySwZ3eM-Y&amp;border=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/a><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avweb produced two videos on the operation and description on Diamond&#8217;s Austro AE300 engines. The nickel tour is that they are heavier than Thielert&#8217;s engines, but are promised to be much more durable. A typical design decision is that the Austro has a heavier cast iron block, but this allows for the engine to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1128,1025,1035,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-propulsion","category-technology","category-transportation","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}