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The most complicated new engine has three cylinders, a rotating block, a stationary head, and is shaped like a circle

Meet the Birotary, a crazy new and complicated engine that has three cylinders arranged like a star, a rotating block, a ...
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New rotating-detonation engine boosts hypersonic missile efficiency

Two revolutionary aerospace technologies collide as GE Aerospace and Lockheed Martin team up to demonstrate a new ...
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These fancy new rotating detonation engines explode constantly by design

They're noisy, but your next missile or military vehicle might have an RDE (rotating detonation engine) powerplant in it. RDEs are more fuel-efficient, lighter, easier to maintain, and capable of ...
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This day in car history: The first rotary engines rev up

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...