We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer ...

Both pistons and valves move in and out of a space at the top of engine cylinders known as the “combustion chamber”.

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines.

The P-51 Mustang of World War II fame was a marvel of mass production: thanks to five different fuselage sections, the famous fighter could be built in record time. It ...

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