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 ...

CANTON Over the past 15 years C. Mitchell Boulton has been working to make something old new again. Doing what he described as a retirement hobby, Boulton began reverse engineering a radial aircraft ...

The largest sin the original VW Beetle ever committed was sporting a drivetrain seemingly made of wet paper bags. So to say, it could have been better in the power department. Well, we're not sure ...

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 ...