Honda might be looking back to early aeronautics in its latest bid to make variable compression engines simpler and sturdier. The engine is designed to take advantage of the simple crank design of ...

Us car guys want to believe our engines are cooler than ones in aircraft, but they're not. I bet that if we grew up flying biplanes instead of family sedans, we'd all be into carbureted radial engines ...

Last week, we introduced you to Robert “Jocko” Johnson, the desert-dwelling sculptor/cylinder head-porting master/would-be land speed record-breaker profiled in the May 5, 1997 issue of Autoweek. This ...

CANTON Over the past 15 years C. Mitchell Boulton has been working to make something old new again. Doing what he described as a retirement hobby, Boulton began reverse engineering a radial aircraft ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

One of the highlights of the annual tractor show in Burkhardtsdorf, is an amazing radial engine mounted on the back of a trailer. Now, we don't often get to talk about these amazing star-shaped ...

Lists of weird motorcycles always feature a machine called the Megola – a bike with a banana-shaped chassis and the engine in the front wheel. It’s good for a chuckle before moving on. But far from ...