Re: Packard Fuel Injection Patent - Early

Posted by 32model901 On 2019/9/8 6:14:39

Packard, the captain, and the wavy-crank opposed-piston engine.https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/08/07/packard-the-captain-and-the-wavy-crank-opposed-piston-engine/

There must be an unwritten rule somewhere that every engineer - even the most button-down, nose-to-the-grindstone straight-shooter - is allowed at least one flight of fancy. Prolific Packard inventor Captain Lionel M. Woolson seemed to have spent his idle hours dreaming of an internal-combustion engine that nobody else seems to have considered.

Woolson, though little known to Packard automobile enthusiasts, holds high esteem among Packard aviation enthusiasts. He is, after all, the man who designed Packard's successful diesel aviation engines that won the company the prestigious Collier Trophy in 1931 and who was personally recognized by President Herbert Hoover for the achievement.

A native of Los Angeles who spent much of his youth in England and who studied engineering at St. Paul's School in London, Woolson began applying for patents in the Teens as a mechanical engineer with Hoboken-based Bijur Motor Appliance Co. then, once the United States entered World War I, joined the Army Air Service. Though he trained as a pilot, the Army Air Service assigned him to aircraft engine testing and stationed him at McCook Field in Dayton under Jesse Vincent, where Woolson rose to the rank of captain.