It's the stuff of legend: goggles, leathercaps, and fluttering white scarves, brightly-colored canvas-and-wood aircraft clashing in battle, just barely past the fledgling stage of human flight. The ...

Rotary engines (also known as Wankel engines and Wankel rotary engines) are quite different from piston or "reciprocating" engines. One of the distinguishing features is that they don't need valves to ...

At Old Rhinebeck Airdrome in Red Hook, New York, sits one of the premier collections of vintage aircraft in the United States. Director of Maintenance Mark Mondello is one of the key people ...

Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing ...

Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both ...

Since both the automotive and aerospace industries are racing toward greener propulsion systems, we may see a rotary prototype that runs on quite a different fuel. For so long, hydrogen engines ...

Power rating: 96.9 kW(130 hp) at 1,250 rpm Displacement: 16.3 L (992 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 120 mm (4.7 in.) x 160 mm (6.3 in.) Engineering inventor Pierre Clerget and industrialist Eugene Blin ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

Dublin, July 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Aircraft Engines Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2034" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report describes and ...