Helicopters have a completely different utility compared to airplanes and jets. Nonetheless, they still have powerful engines ...

WASHINGTON – LiquidPiston, supported by Army innovation programs, is poised to transform the U.S. Army’s capabilities as the ...

Today rotary engines are used in aircraft and industrial machinery, but only one car maker -- Mazda -- has persisted with the technology for use in motor cars. Defunct German manufacturer NSU was ...

The U.S. Army, which understood the military applications of a rotary-wing aircraft, took notice of ... mounted horizontally above the engine to allow for engine cooling. The engine featured ...

the aircraft still put out 500 hp at 8,500 rpm. In ground tests, the distinct scream of the rotary could be heard more than a mile away, and the engine was powerful enough to tow a truck with its ...

fixed wing and rotary — and simplifies tracking global aircraft and engines. It is comprised of 70,000 aircraft and 110,000 engines in service from more than 400 military operators and includes ...

LONDON–Airbus Helicopters has teamed up with Babcock and CAE to offer the H145M twin-engine light helicopter to Poland as ...

The CV-22 can perform missions that normally would require both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The CV-22 takes off vertically and, once airborne, the nacelles (engine and prop-rotor group ...

This is a result of several factors, including the physics of the rotors, retreating blade stall, engine power ... the strengths of fixed-wing aircraft and rotary-wing aircraft.