{"id":195260,"date":"2008-07-20T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/diamond-drops-out-of-running-for-thielert-purchase\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:52:00","slug":"diamond-drops-out-of-running-for-thielert-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/diamond-drops-out-of-running-for-thielert-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Drops Out of Running for Thielert Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been posting a lot on the insolvency of innovative aircraft diesel manufacture and the conflict with it&#8217;s primary customer, Diamond Aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/17\/225732\/farnborough-2008-diamond-drops-thielert-bid-over-insolvency.html\">their divorce is now final<\/a>, with Diamond washing its hands of a bid for the engine manufacturer, and hoping for certification of its aircraft diesel in the next few months, followed by swapping out the old Thielert diesels.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how much of the purchase price of the Thielert engine included scheduled maintenance, and now that it is in bankruptcy, it&#8217;s no longer covered, this is probably the best course of action for Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Background <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=thielert\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been posting a lot on the insolvency of innovative aircraft diesel manufacture and the conflict with it&#8217;s primary customer, Diamond Aircraft. Well, it appears that their divorce is now final, with Diamond washing its hands of a bid for the engine manufacturer, and hoping for certification of its aircraft diesel in the next few &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1004,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-finance","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195260"}],"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=195260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}