This 1981 A36TC Bonanza has 4,000 hours on the airframe, 15 hours since overhaul on its Continental IO-520TC, and 850 hours ...

When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer ...

T he Piper Aerostar (also known as the Piper PA-60) is one of the most iconic high-performance twin-engine aircraft ever ...

For pilots accustomed to flying six-seat piston or turboprop models, this Cessna’s CJ1 will seem comfortably familiar, only ...

The free piston engine, a design with opposed pistons working against compressed air springs and combining both compression and firing strokes in a single axis, doesn’t turn anything in itself ...

These engines produce 180 ... of the newest cutting-edge propulsion technology to raise the bar in piston-aircraft power. Doug and JP were both veteran pilots, while Diane had a background ...

Besides the fact that there are no fuel-air explosions involved, these pistons are also double-acting ... [Brick Technology] could start experimenting with engine arrangements and geometry.

Four piston-powered engines, with their propellers synced ... Captain Ron Carpinella, a decades-long veteran of the airplane, walks confidently around Tanker 60, busily performing a preflight ...