But there is another rotary engine that has a prior claim to the name, and it can be found as the power unit for many early-twentieth-century aircraft. In these rotary engines the cylinders are ...

Rotary engines have almost completely gone out of production, but they’re still beloved by enthusiasts. Eschewing pistons for a spinning three-sided rotor, they rev to the moon and sound great ...

Austro Engines, a division of Diamond Aircraft, has capped two and a half years of developing its AE80R rotary aircraft engine with successful bench testing. The company announced the tests ...

His work spanned into industrial with the rotary engine for seismic drilling, rotary aircraft engines, and even power generators. That generator was built in 2015 to use natural gas for the ...

The Sh.IIIa was “one of the highest developments of a rotary engine in an aircraft, and one of the most promising German designs of the war,” says Kinney. Genchi believes that only about a ...

Credit: LiquidPiston LiquidPiston has launched a 25-hp heavy-fuel rotary engine that could power hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles and small uncrewed aircraft systems as well ...