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 ...

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, ...

Power rating: 33.6 kW (45 hp) at 1,300 rpm Displacement: 4.6 L (279 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 90 mm (3.5 in.) x 120 mm (4.7 in.) Alessandro Anzani, an Italian who originally built motorcycles in France ...

Lockheed's Model 12-A was a twin-engine transport plane that the aerospace firm manufactured between 1936 and 1942. It was designed as a smaller version of Lockheed's 10-A, sitting just over 36 feet ...

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 ...

Bore and Stroke: 133 mm (5.3 in.) x 127 mm (5.0 in.) Originally known as Fischer and Jacobs, this manufacturer was organized in Philadelphia in 1927, and was one of a number of manufacturers of small ...