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2025 FLYING Buyers Guide: Pistons
Slowly increasing availability of unleaded avgas is among the market developments for piston-engine airplanes.
From its beginnings in WWI, dogfighting has been an essential part of almost every major conflict since, and continues today.
It was produced from 1956 through 1985, and was then again restarted with the other single-engine piston planes in 1996. Nearly 24,000 total aircraft have been produced in various models ...
The free piston engine, a design with opposed pistons working against compressed air springs and combining both compression and firing strokes in a single axis, doesn’t turn anything in itself ...
Edge Group’s new Powertech unit has secured a first engine order weeks after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) defense company ...
Each occupant of a turbine-powered aircraft is assumed to weigh 200 lb., thus allowing for stowed luggage and carry-on items. In the case of piston-engine airplanes, we assume each occupant weighs ...
This is what was done on July 15, 2024, when a missile strike was carried out on the Gidroport airfield in Odesa. One OSINT ...
Besides the fact that there are no fuel-air explosions involved, these pistons are also double-acting ... [Brick Technology] could start experimenting with engine arrangements and geometry.