The Honda Chimney Engine represents a bold leap forward in engine technology, integrating a valve within the piston and ...

Radial engines were more often than used in aviation applications, after all. It's a two-liter liquid-cooled radial engine, upgraded from the 1.6-liter three-cylinder radial of Radial Motion's own ...

The BMW 801 was the first German high-performance, air-cooled radial engine of new design introduced after the start of World War II. Introduction of a cooling fan in the cowl nose opening, operating ...

Radial engines may have been the better option during WW2 for military fighter planes, but nowadays, they are much more rare to find. Here's why.

The engine itself was made in the 1940s, and designed by Glen Morton of Morton Aviation. Called the Morton M5, it’s a four-stroke, spark ignition, miniature radial that runs on methanol/castor ...

The high power output of the radial engine also caught the attention of some aspiring Grand Prix racers. Driver Count Carlo Felice Trossi funded Augusto Camillo Pietro Monaco in 1935 to build a ...

Pratt & Whitney initiated design and development of the R-2800 Double Wasp, America’s first 18-cylinder radial engine, in 1936. With water injection and turbo-supercharging, the R-2800 produced more ...

This Manx is one of the newly minted versions, but the engine in the back has no VW DNA. It's a 2.0-liter radial engine, with the cylinders arranged in a circle around the crankshaft.