Pop the hood on a classic Mazda RX-7 or RX-8 and the engine bay looks oddly empty. That is the charm of the rotary engine: a compact lump of metal that trades pistons and valves for a spinning ...

Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:14 Main structure 3:05 Powerplant 6:34 Fuel system 8:17 Control surfaces 12:17 Landing gear 15:14 Cockpit 19:54 Lights and electrical system 21:53 Outro Addendum 18:04 I ...

If you are a motorhead, an unusual engine will immediately get your attention. Most vehicles today have either an inline or V-shaped configuration, so anything peculiar will immediately stick out. If ...

Developing a gasoline-powered rotary engine was a dream for Felix Wankel, and we mean that literally. Some steam engines worked on the same basic principle as far back as the 18th century, but the ...

It is quite ironic that internal combustion engines (ICEs) have remained basically the same for more than one hundred years. It is only now – when they are allegedly on the verge of disappearing – ...

Despite the steadily rising popularity of turbochargers and superchargers for hopping up early- and late-model hot rods, nitrous oxide, better known as “throttle in a bottle,” has never lost its ...