| Diesel fuel may be popular as the fuel that makes | | | | Lees on the controls. The aircraft was a Stinson |
| that makes your car go from one place to another. | | | | SM1B X7654. It was the same aircraft that Charles |
| Without it, many of the automobiles around the | | | | Linbergh would fly to great fame later that year. In |
| world would find themselves at a standstill. But diesel | | | | 1931, Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy set the |
| does much more than make your family move | | | | nonstop flying record by flying a Bellanca powered by |
| across the state. It is the key to the success of | | | | a Packard diesel engine for 84 hours and 32 mins. |
| several other activities and industries. And because of | | | | Even the great Hindenburg was powered by four |
| the rising prices of gas around the world, it's best to | | | | large diesel engines. And that airship was one of the |
| know the various uses of diesel to gain a more | | | | most legendary figures ever to take flight. |
| complete appreciation of how this precious type of | | | | Diesel fuel was also used in automobile racing with |
| fuel influences world affairs. | | | | the diesel engine winning the Indianapolis 500 as early |
| Many people don't know it but diesel has also been | | | | as 1931. Diesel cars and trucks have broken many |
| used to power aircraft engines in the past. The first | | | | land speed records and have won many touring car |
| diesel powered flight of a fixed wing aircraft took | | | | races, especially in the 1990s. In addition, diesel has |
| place in September 18, 1928 at the Packard Motor | | | | also been used as an extraction agent for palladium |
| Company with Captain Lionel M. Wilson and Walter | | | | from nitric acid mixtures. |