After a split with the UK company that continues to develop the WAM-120 diesel aero engine and a brief sojourn in his native Australia, designer Mark Wilksch has reappeared on the general aviation scene with his appointment as director of new engine development at Teledyne Continental Motors (TCM).
Although it is associated with ‘traditional’ aero engines, TCM was working on its own aircraft diesel engine some years ago. It’s easy to speculate that Wilksch, whose WAM-120 was very much a ‘clean sheet of paper’ design, may have been brought in to set some kind of diesel programme back in motion at the US giant, which is based in Mobile, Alabama.
