Depending on how you measure it, the displacement of a Mazda 13B is either 1.3 liters (1,309 cc), 2.6 liters (2,618 cc), or 3 ...
In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...
Meet the Birotary, a crazy new and complicated engine that has three cylinders arranged like a star, a rotating block, a ...
The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, a German book salesman named Felix Wankel entertained a revolutionary, if not heretical notion: he fell to wondering if the standard gasoline engine, man’s commonest prime mover ...
For more than a decade the name Wankel has popped up whenever car enthusiasts start talking about advanced-design automotive powerplants. The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr.