Free-piston engine generators and linear machines represent an innovative departure from conventional rotary systems, offering high thermal efficiency and operational flexibility by eliminating the ...

If you are a motorhead, an unusual engine will immediately get your attention. Most vehicles today have either an inline or V-shaped configuration, so anything peculiar will immediately stick out. If ...

Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both into a single ...

For thirty years piston-engine fighters were the best thing in the sky and they helped shape what military aviation would ...

The Commer TS3 engine, built for Commer trucks from the '50s into the late '60s, didn't conform to design conventions of the time. Where most engines follow familiar blueprints with one piston per ...