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 ...

Congress won’t fund the Army’s plans to outsource training for new helicopter pilots until it sees the results of a trial ...

Chinese firm Dongan Auto revives the Wankel engine, developing a lightweight prototype aimed at next-gen aerial mobility ...

Part two of the Quest for Power series breaks down rotary and radial engines, why circular layouts solved cooling and reliability, and why they also came with nasty tradeoffs. From WWI rotaries to ...

Once left behind due to high fuel consumption and fragile reliability, the rotary engine, long championed by Mazda, is making ...

The Airbus H225 is on static display at Dubai Airshow in its configuration for the Kuwait Police. Credit: Billypix DUBAI—The Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) has ordered the Airbus H225M twin-engine ...

The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) Dhruv NG multi-role helicopter completed its maiden flight at the HAL Helicopter ...

Eurocopter has successfully tested a hybrid helicopter that combines a turboshaft internal combustion engine with an electric motor for a world premiere, marking a new milestone in its innovation ...

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 ...

Dhruv NG is positioned as a cost-effective, high-performance alternative to imported light twin-engine helicopters. The ...