The revitalization of the Meyers Manx brand over the past few years has been thrilling to watch, as the dune buggy company gears up to launch its wholly new Manx 2.0 EV alongside the classic kits and ...

From spinning rotary engines and their brutal side effects to the massive multi-row radials that powered bombers and fighters, this episode traces how engineers chased power through clever compromises ...

ST. HELENA — To Mike Nieman, the smell of his large Pratt & Whitney “Wasp Major” radial aircraft engine running is “the smell of victory.” “That smell is of a working engine that made this country ...

Bore and Stroke: 125 mm (4.92 in.) x 170 mm (6.69 in.) This engine was a double form of the Z9, which had nine cylinders. Salmson aircraft engines that were produced in France starting in 1913 by the ...

To Mike Nieman, the smell of his large Pratt & Whitney “Wasp Major” radial aircraft engine running is “the smell of victory.” “That smell is of a working engine that made this country free,” said the ...

Power rating: 33.6 kW (45 hp) at 1,300 rpm Displacement: 4.6 L (279 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 90 mm (3.5 in.) x 120 mm (4.7 in.) Alessandro Anzani, an Italian who originally built motorcycles in France ...

Frederick Rentschler’s R-1340 Wasp reshaped aviation, a legacy that Pratt & Whitney president Shane Eddy says will guide propulsion’s next century, with India playing a central role.

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 ...