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China builds air-breathing engine that could power jets and missiles past Mach 6

China has unveiled a new type of air-breathing engine that could replace today’s turbine-ramjet ...

From Mach 0 to 6: this engine may power China’s future fighter jets and missiles

Revolutionary engine prototype three decades in the making could replace combined turbine-ramjet systems in high-speed flight ...
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Tiny Wankel engine packs a power punch above its weight class

The electric motor might carry the hype banner at the moment, but some minds remain convinced that there's plenty of innovation left to be extracted from internal combustion. AIE is one of the rotary ...
sciencex

Big power, small footprint: how biofuel rotary engines put sustainability on fast spin

A bold collaboration aimed to bring research to reality could rewrite the rulebook on sustainable energy. Advanced Innovative Engineering (AIE), the leader in high-performance rotary engines, is ...

The Drop-Top RX-7 Was Ultimately Made Redundant When The Miata Came Along

In the early '90s, Mazda's rotary-powered RX-7 was the quintessential Japanese two-seat sports car. But then the Miata ...
AOL

The Engine That Almost Killed Mazda — and Why It’s Still Alive Today

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...
New Atlas

'Inside-out Wankel' engine powers US Army's tiny new 10-kW genset

LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it's prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size and weight of the current model the Army uses. That means it'll be far ...