If you look at aircraft from the Second World War or earlier, you'll notice that many of them have engines with large frontal areas and cylinders arranged about the propeller crankshaft. This a radial ...

From piston engines to future hydrogen fuel celled engines, the history of aero engines is full of revolutions.

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 ...

Say you’re developing a new aircraft engine and you want to do some real-world testing. What’s the easiest and most fun way to go about it? Try it out on a car, first. And if it’s not just any car, ...

For a long time radial aircraft engines, with their distinctive cylinder housings arranged in a circle, were a common sight on aircraft. As an experiment, [KendinYap], wanted to see if he could ...