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Old February 20th 08, 09:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.owning
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Default Thielert (Diesel Engines)

On 21 Feb., 01:10, Peter wrote:
Thomas Borchert wrote

True. I'm just looking at the evidence so far. Number of aviation diesels
designed from a car engine: 1 (I think). Percentage of those flying in
numbers for several years: 100. Number of aviation diesels designed from the
ground up: 3 (? - Zoche, sma, Deltahawk). Percentage flying in numbers for
several years: 0.


Unfortunately this deduction fails to take into account the real
market.


I could not disagree more with your line of reasoning. ALL players I
mentioned come from outside the US (apart from Deltahawk, I think).
All entered the field either at the same time as Thielert or well
before. Only Thielert has managed to gain any traction in the market,
including just recently winning Cessna as an OEM on the 172. One just
can't claim that this is all clever marketing and fast action. It's
the way the engine is built.

BTW, note that Diamond has now started building its own diesel engine.
Two remarks regarding that:

1. I guess they don't think the Thielert is perfect, either.
2. Wanna guess what their design is based on? Yep, a Mercedes car
engine.

Thomas