Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these ...

Cross-plane cranks have their crank pins arranged in a plus shape. Flat-plane cranks have their crank pins arranged opposite ...

Cover title: A history of aircraft piston engines. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!359272~!0#focus ...

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 ...