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 ...

LONDON—Leonardo’s autonomous rotorcraft demonstrator Proteus has made its long-awaited first flight. The distinctive uncrewed ...

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 into a single ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Data centre developers are turning to aircraft engines and fossil fuel generators to power the AI boom, as ...

Facing multi-year waits for electrical grid connections, data center operators supporting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are turning to an unexpected supplier: supersonic jet engine ...