We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mankind first took flight in 1903 when the Wright brothers took off over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Since then, all manner of aircraft have ...

history columnFrances Righter Tucker was just 3 or 4 years old, barely able to sit on a stool, when she began helping her father, Walter Righter, work on miniature airplane engines in his backyard ...

Some cars were made with airplane engines; others seem to be made for them. Jay Leno proves that with his EcoJet, which runs on a Honeywell LTS101 helicopter engine. Jay Leno’s stash of 199 cars and ...

Behind closed doors at the UK headquarters of Rolls-Royce Aerospace, machinery whirs, fans hum and blades screech as some 1,000 people go about the complex task of getting an airplane engine off the ...

Speed, efficiency, and altitude are the name of the game when it comes to aircraft; all of which benefit from smaller engines. "There's no replacement for displacement" applies less to piston-engine ...