Introduced in 1957 as a counterpart to the West German VW Beetle, the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced ...

Some of the advantages of radial air-cooled aeronautic engines are given, followed by a brief outline of their development, which was necessarily slow because of the novel mechanical problems involved ...

On this day in aviation history, 89 years ago-March 27, 1936-the first flight of the Fokker D.XXI took place. Designed in ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to Harley ...

Below, Taylor guides you through a tour of this pioneering aircraft, giving you a detailed ... early airplanes carried very lightweight air-cooled engines. They wanted a lightweight engine because ...

These are 4- to 6-cylinder direct drive horizontally opposed, air-cooled engines. Depending on the aircraft requirements, these engines may be carbureted, fuel-injected, or turbocharged.

For decades, the massively popular Volkswagen Type-1 Beetle and the Type-2 VW Microbus or Transporter were powered by a unique air-cooled boxer engine. The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is ...

Because storied Caterham’s choice of an immersion-cooled battery pack for its Project V concept car highlights a technology that could tackle many of the challenges facing electric aircraft ...

Despite delaying service entry by up to 10 years, Airbus is still pressing ahead with its ZEROe hydrogen aircraft programme ...

The U.S. Air Force is asking for turbofan engine concepts in the 35,000-50,000-lb.-thrust range that could power a wide range of commercial and military aircraft efforts, including a new type of ...