After more than five decades of dedicated service to the aviation industry, Covington Aircraft Engines has announced that it will officially close its renowned radial engine shop at the end of 2025.

The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is, and, sometimes, justifiably so, a subject of silent reverence. Created as a personal project in the early 1930s, called PV-12, it was soon to become a lot more than a ...

It began with one man’s vision that the best airplane can only be designed around the best engine. That philosophy of Pratt & Whitney founder Frederick B Rentschler still applies today as the business ...

Half title: Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum. "Fourth Lester B. Gardner lecture, delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 8, 1962, and at the Smithsonian ...

During World War II the radial engine was popular, and it was used in many fighter and bomber aircraft. Manufacturers in aviation used them because the engines deliver a ton of power for their size, ...

This collection consists of historical material from Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems, Inc. There are twenty-five rolls of microfilm pertaining to the Wright Aeronautical Division (which was responsible ...

Motor, affectionately known as the "Tin Goose." The Tri-Motor pictured here was acquired by the Michigan Flight Museum ...