If someone tells you they have seen a rotary engine, the chances are that you will immediately think of a Wankel engine, as you might find in some of the more exotic Mazda sports cars. But there is ...

The iconic rotary car engine, thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of impractical technology, is making a comeback in Japan from the very automaker that introduced the system as far back as ...

At Old Rhinebeck Airdrome in Red Hook, New York, sits one of the premier collections of vintage aircraft in the United States. Director of Maintenance Mark Mondello is one of the key people ...

Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered flight last month, reaching Mach 0.9 with a drone. The 8-foot-long vehicle was dropped from an Aero L-29 Delfín aircraft at 12,000 feet and flew under the ...

When is an empty tube not an empty tube? When it's a ramjet that uses rotating detonation technology to propel aircraft at hypersonic speeds. A case in point is Venus Aerospace's new Venus Detonation ...

Rotaries are truly fascinating engines. They’re small, lightweight and unlike anything else on the road. Also, people keep saying something about a spinning Dorito? One of the coolest Lego projects we ...

If it weren’t for Mazda, the rotary engine developed by German mechanical engineer Felix Wankel might have never seen series-production applications on such a large scale. The RX-7 is arguably the ...

It rose to prominence in the Mazda RX-7 model line, but the last new car feature one was the Mazda RX-8. Since then, Mazda has been continually developing the technology with the aim of bringing it ...

Mazda has announced the all-new MX-30, the automaker's first battery electric vehicle (BEV) to the US market. Aimed at the California market, the MX-30 is a compact SUV-styled car that will also ...

After he said he’s not interested in a wrecked car for his turbo four-rotor project, Rob Dahm did the exact opposite by purchasing a crashed C8 Corvette we’ve covered a month ago in a different ...

Mazda will launch the latest take on its most famous engine technology by March 31 next year, with the brand's rotary revival finally ready to get underway. It will first find a home in the brand's MX ...