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 ...

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 ...

Bore and Stroke: 117 mm (4.6 in.) x 108 mm (4.3 in.) The Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan built four models of similar radial air-cooled engines. Three were seven cylinder engines ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...