It's the stuff of legend: goggles, leathercaps, and fluttering white scarves, brightly-colored canvas-and-wood aircraft clashing in battle, just barely past the fledgling stage of human flight. The ...

The electric motor might carry the hype banner at the moment, but some minds remain convinced that there's plenty of innovation left to be extracted from internal combustion. AIE is one of the rotary ...

The Mazda Iconic SP concept of the 2023 Japan Mobility Show was the sign of a new Mazda sports car that we’ve been awaiting for a decade—no, two. The Wankel rotary-powered, popup headlight-equipped ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This somewhat unique artifact is an ...

The rotorcraft engine business, like the helicopter industry it serves, has been notoriously slow to develop new models and refresh its products over the decades. But now, as new propulsion concepts ...

Many mainstream automakers are moving away from sports cars. But not Mazda, which seems set to offer two different models. We’ve already reported on the company’s planning for what will become the ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

Explore the story of the Mazda RX-7 FD, the final and longest-running generation of the iconic rotary-powered sports car.

While Mazda’s rotary engine re-entered production last year for the first time in over a decade, it sadly was not revived in an exciting sports car but rather serves as a range extender in the MX-30 e ...

Power rating: 96.9 kW(130 hp) at 1,250 rpm Displacement: 16.3 L (992 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 120 mm (4.7 in.) x 160 mm (6.3 in.) Engineering inventor Pierre Clerget and industrialist Eugene Blin ...

If there's one common trait shared by most helicopters, it's that they're light. And that's because it takes far less energy to lift something that's lighter, so the most efficient designs are often ...