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 ...

Mike Nixon gave an informative talk about the Bristol Centaurus, an 18-cylinder, sleeve-valve radial engine producing over 3,000 horsepower, at the March Plane Crazy Saturday event at Mojave Air & ...

The 20th century was the age of the internal combustion engine. The fruits of industrial progress produced power plants tasked with everything from running generators to powering warplanes. The First ...

Like all good engineers, those designing aircraft engines are greedy. They always want more power, more durability, and more efficiency. They also want it in the smallest, lightest package possible.

German researcher Otto Lutz introduced the swing-piston concept about 1923. Intended primarily as a high pressure compressor or gas generator for relatively high power gas turbine engines for ...