Chinese firm Dongan Auto revives the Wankel engine, developing a lightweight prototype aimed at next-gen aerial mobility ...

Jacob is a senior automotive journalist and editor with over a decade of experience in the industry. Before joining CarBuzz in 2023, he served as Chief Editor and Senior Car Reviewer at AutoDeal and ...

For CFM International, the decision whether to stay with a turbofan or move to an open-rotor engine to power the next generation of single-aisle airliners will come sooner rather than later. The ...

GE Aviation and NASA will run a wind tunnel test program over the northern summer to evaluate and test counter-rotating fan-blade systems for open-rotor jet engine designs. The newly improved rig for ...

MTU Aero Engines is convinced that the dynamics of the narrowbody market are likely to prevent an open-rotor design from being adopted on a future single-aisle due to the need to preserve customer ...

Engine rotor-overspeed certification standards have been amended by FAA. The new rule, which goes into effect Sept. 16, establishes uniform rotor-overspeed design and test requirements for aircraft ...

How many rotors are too many? While most Mazda engine builders and tuners wouldn’t dare to build an engine with more than four rotors, a company out of New Zealand has built a six-rotor engine for the ...

Mazda's famous rotary engine finally made its big return last year, but it wasn't under the hood of a replacement for the RX-8. In fact, it wasn't even in a performance car at all. Instead, it served ...

In 1991, little Mazda stood at the top of the world. It won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its banshee Mazda 787B prototype, and here is the 700-horsepower quad-rotor engine that got it the win. This is ...