Most of the internal combustion piston engines built for vehicles throughout history have pretty familiar core designs. The ...

The history of aviation is riddled with stories about what-ifs projects and daredevils who dreamt big and woke up to a sad reality. Very little is known about one such case – the home-built ...

Certain propeller driven aeroplanes are equipped with piston engines whose fundamental "firing"-frequency coincides with the rotational frequency of the propeller. Taking the two sources as a system ...

What's the biggest engine you can think of off the top of your head? There are certainly still some colossal motors in the automotive market, as big as Bugatti's 8-liter W16. If you're thinking ...

Modern piston engines are incorporating advancements such as fuel injection, turbocharging, and electronic controls (like Lycoming's iE2 system). Weight reduction is a key focus; engines like the ...

Sandia National Laboratory led by Sandia researcher Peter Van Blarigan that has been testing physical components of free-piston engines which could be 50% efficient. This is about twice as good as ...

Remarkable innovations have been made to automotive technology since Karl Benz introduced the world to the "Motorwagen" in 1866 and Henry Ford gave rise to the American auto industry with the Model T ...

Drop cap initial letterLet's get one thing straight: The variable-valve-timing, direct-injection, turbo-wonderful powerplant in your new car is not cutting-edge. Despite the complexity of the modern ...