Changan’s R05E prototype achieves first ignition, signaling renewed interest in rotary engines but for a wilder application.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The rotorcraft engine business, like the helicopter industry it serves, has been notoriously slow to develop new models and refresh its products over the decades. But now, as new propulsion concepts ...

Union Minister Ram Mohan Naidu inaugurated Dhruv NG, a next-generation civil helicopter by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Designed to cater to the global civil aviation market, the helicopter ...

In a world dominated by pistons, the rotary engine was something different for motorists. It was the vision of German engineer Felix Wankel, built on the belief that the up-and-down motion of pistons ...

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

Union Minister Ram Mohan Naidu on Tuesday flagged off the inaugural flight of the next-generation civil helicopter Dhruv NG, ...

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