REFLECTOR: 11,500 data for the DH engine

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It's Jet-A

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> A good Diesel is about 30% more efficient than a standard gas engine (auto) 
> given the lower efficiency of the aircraft engine 36% would sound about right. 
> Remember that these numbers are based on VOLUME burned e.g., gallons not weight 
> since diesel is denser. 
> 
> Jim 
> --- Alex Balic wrote: 
> > Yea, that should be about right- diesel fuel has more energy per gallon 
> > then 100 LL and the direct injection process by design allows it to run 
> > at max efficiency (no throttle plate) 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On 
> > Behalf Of Grigore Rosu 
> > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:58 AM 
> > To: reflector at tvbf.org 
> > Subject: REFLECTOR: 11,500 data for the DH engine 
> > 
> > 
> > Just noticed that Deltahawk published (yesterday) airspeed and fuel flow 
> > 
> > data for their DH160-equiped Velocity flying at 11,500 altitude. 
> > 
> > To me, as a non-expert in engines, that data seems just amazing: 
> > 
> > > ... at 145 KTAS and 11,500 feet MSL the DeltaHawk is burning only 3.81 
> > 
> > > GPH or more than 36% LESS fuel than the IO-360 ... 
> > 
> > Grigore 
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> James F. Agnew 
> Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com 
> Tampa, FL 
> Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying 
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