The 20th century was the age of the internal combustion engine. The fruits of industrial progress produced power plants tasked with everything from running generators to powering warplanes. The First ...

Mid-century classic shares several features familiar to pilots of newer aircraft.

Click to open image viewer. Power rating: 44.7 kW (60 hp) at 1,900 rpm Displacement: 4.11 L (250.58 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 104.8 mm (4.125 in.) x 95.3 mm (3.75 in.) The Le Blond Aircraft Engine ...

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 ...

If you look at aircraft from the Second World War or earlier, you'll notice that many of them have engines with large frontal areas and cylinders arranged about the propeller crankshaft. This a radial ...

After more than five decades of dedicated service to the aviation industry, Covington Aircraft Engines has announced that it will officially close its renowned radial engine shop at the end of 2025.

Power rating: 33.6 kW (45 hp) at 1,300 rpm Displacement: 4.6 L (279 cu in.) Bore and Stroke: 90 mm (3.5 in.) x 120 mm (4.7 in.) Alessandro Anzani, an Italian who originally built motorcycles in France ...