That lump under your car's hood? Yep, that's an engine. Duh, right? That thing spinning the propeller on a Piper J-3 Cub? Also an engine. That said, they're about as similar as a catapult and a ...

Most personal airplanes utilize air-cooled piston engines, a pre-WWII design favored for its lightweight and the inherent simplicity of air as a coolant. Pilots manage engine heat through primary ...

Perhaps not as visible as their counterparts doing business in the automotive industry, aviation startups are just as numerous. Some of them are proposing outlandish ideas that will probably never ...

Automotive engines in small, single-prop aircraft aren't anything new. Aviation enthusiast and small aircraft owners have been swapping LS V8s into planes for years. Some of them are DIY projects, ...

In the aviation industry, innovation is usually the name of the game. Think of the last 86 years and how the jet engine has evolved, allowing folks to traverse to the other side of the planet in hours ...