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Old 1st Oct 2013, 11:31
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Sir George Cayley
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It's probably too late now, but I've long felt using the word 'diesel' to describe this family of power plants could lead to confusion.

As I understand it, they are compression ignition engines which inject fuel to create combustion. That fuel is AVTUR (e.g. Jet A-1) and not the smelly stuff out of the black nozzle at Tescos petrol station.

Now honouring Rudolf Diesel by naming all compression ignition engines is a nice thought but miss-fueling is on page one of the list of errors down to human factors.

Just a thought - must go I have to Hoover the carpets

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