The 10 Greatest Piston-Engine Fighter Aircraft ...

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 into a single ...

Engineers have a lot to think about when designing new engines, and one of the biggest considerations is the shape of the pistons in the cylinders.

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

The story of how Honda developed an oval-piston race engine that ultimately failed but still made history along the way. Honda pioneered oval piston technology in the 1970s for four-stroke racing ...

Golf balls have dimples, so they fly farther than balls that don't. Apply the same principle to diesel engines, and you have a gross oversimplification of why dimpled pistons were invented. It's a ...

General aviation piston engine manufacturers are wary of product liability, so they recommend that their engines be overhauled every 12 years, or in operational time – after they have done around ...

Ferrari is exploring radical oval pistons that could shrink engines, boost efficiency, and reinvent how high-performance gas motors are designed for the next generation. For as long as internal ...