It is widely known that the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft to ever take to the skies, with the plane able to exceed speeds far beyond Mach 2. The aircraft, which was ...

V8 engines are the soul of auto passion, and displacement has always been the most sacred measurement of these powerplants. Indeed, some readers will probably recall the famous advertisements claiming ...

In today's world of automobiles, internal combustion engines are available in a wide array of induction systems. We have diesel engines, gasoline engines, turbocharged engines, and more. One condition ...

The inline-6 engine layout has its fans in the gas world, but it's the de facto standard design among diesel aficionados. Hardly surprising, as these engines are less complex than any V layout and ...

We look at why Mazda introduced the three-rotor 20B Wankel rotary engine, and why it only ever saw service in the Cosmo coupe ...

From 1945 to 1955, a British aeronautical company called Napier & Son produced not just one but two versions of an intricate hybrid piston engine, which they named the Napier Nomad. The post-World War ...