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When one asks the question: I don't understand why someone hasn't designed,
developed, built and tooled for ...... (your pick of any number of relatively
low volume [by Detriot standards] piece of machinery)?  I am left to smile.
Dreamers of liquid-cooled diesel aircraft engines need only to supply a small
group of engineers and engine developers with somewhere between $20 to 30
million and we'll have a "mimimumly-cooled (by oil, fuel, air and maybe some
sort of liquid - water not being ideal for temps above 260°F),
thermally-tolerant" diesel engine that will approach BSFC of .30 and power to
weight ratio of better than 1:1. Few will like the cost. Titanium alloys and
other materials now used in turbine engines will not come cheap, but it can be
done.  Just "show me the money!"

David Bachman
Lion Engineering
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