The Boeing Co.’s giant 747, 767 and 777 assembly plant in Everett and its new 787 airliner have made Snohomish County a global center for new aerospace technology. Yet Dave Cort’s Precision Engines ...

CANTON Over the past 15 years C. Mitchell Boulton has been working to make something old new again. Doing what he described as a retirement hobby, Boulton began reverse engineering a radial aircraft ...

When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick ...

While the bright yellow fuselage has been restored, it’s the front section of the biplane that’s unique. A turboprop engine has replaced a radial piston engine. It’s the work of Turbines Inc., which ...

Mike Nixon gave an informative talk about the Bristol Centaurus, an 18-cylinder, sleeve-valve radial engine producing over ...

Click to open image viewer. The XR-7755-3 is the largest, most powerful reciprocating aircraft engine in the world. During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces requested an engine with high takeoff ...

German researcher Otto Lutz introduced the swing-piston concept about 1923. Intended primarily as a high pressure compressor or gas generator for relatively high power gas turbine engines for ...