The traditional piston engine has garnered the vast majority of attention and application in the internal combustion age, but there was another: the Wankel rotary engine. German engineer Felix ...

The first rotary engines were primarily used for aircraft during World War I, but the design was abandoned due to flaws and inefficiencies. In 1954, German engineer Felix Wankel invented a new ...

This new video shows off the rotary engine by adding a clear side to a tiny model-airplane engine, something that we weren't aware existed and are glad to know about now. Despite the tiny size ...

The Wankel rotary engine, most notably used in automobiles ... Curtis Wright built airplane engines, Sachs produced small air-cooled engines for everything from chain saws to snowmobiles.

Fokker's designs had started with E.III, a monoplane — a plane with a single wing — and then went on to biplanes, along with ...

We all know about opinions – everyone’s got one etcetera – but there’s perhaps nothing quite as divisive in the automotive world as the rotary engine. Aficionados will wax lyrical about ...

Both 787Bs were powered by 2.6-liter four-rotor engines that were detuned to 700 horsepower. Afterward, the FIA announced that rotary engines would no longer be allowed at Le Mans.

Hill Delays HX50 First Flight to December 2025 is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

The latest version adds a rotary engine to its compact predecessor, with prices ranging from 4.2 million yen ($28,000) to 4.9 million yen after tax. The MX-30 Rotary-EV will arrive on the Japanese ...

The challenges of flying WWI planes, the Fokker D.VIII WWI planes, especially ones with rotary engines like the D.VIII, would spray castor oil — used at the time instead of aviation oil — all ...

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