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 ...

The most qualified pilot to judge a piston-engine fighter was the test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, who deemed the single-seat ...

After more than five decades of dedicated service to the aviation industry, Covington Aircraft Engines has announced that it will officially close its renowned radial engine shop at the end of 2025.

Bore and Stroke: 127 mm (5.0 in.) x 140 mm (5.5 in.) Charles Lawrance, originally a race car engine designer, built his first air-cooled aircraft engine in 1921 for a Navy contract. The 149 kW (200 hp ...

It began with one man’s vision that the best airplane can only be designed around the best engine. That philosophy of Pratt & Whitney founder Frederick B Rentschler still applies today as the business ...