Could there possibly be a rotary engine with 12 rotors? The answer is yes, and here’s everything we know about it including ...

Wankel flies in the face of all this. A simplified Wankel engine has only two moving parts: the rotor, and the eccentric shaft. CC-BY-SA-3.0 by Y_tambe via Wikimedia Common The rotor is a triangle ...

According to Davis, the rotary engine will continue to play a role in the company's products moving forward, with engineers applying the lessons learned through the SkyActiv program to the powerplant.

Firstly, there are far fewer moving parts, with no camshafts and valves to worry about. Secondly, as the rotor and associated shafts are all working in the same circular motion, the rotary engine ...

The issue, as it has pretty much always been, is environmental. While the Wankel rotary engine does indeed make a lot of power in a small, lightweight package, it does so while burning lots of ...

Although there was briefly a company called Rotary ... very few moving parts and offers very smooth power transfer and high power to weight ratio. The downside, though, is that the engine ...

Airbus Helicopters has adopted a low-risk approach to expanding its light twin-engine rotorcraft offerings in a market that it already largely dominates. The company’s new H140—unveiled at the ...