All automakers tried to get the most out of their designed and built engines ... financed Wankel's experimental workshop that developed rotary valves for WWII aircraft and torpedoes.

AIE is one of the rotary engine's biggest champions and has been advancing new rotaries via the latest manufacturing tools and techniques since 2012. Its latest release shows that Wankel engines ...

The Szorenyi would be an ideal engine in ultralight aircraft and gyrocopters for the same reasons as the Wankel: good power, low weight, small size. After all the positive reception from the ...

Traditional Wankel engines feature a triangular rotor in a ... the pilot used the inefficient APU to burn fuel and reduce the aircraft’s weight. That’s a perfect example of where our ...

The first rotary engines were primarily used for aircraft during World War I, but the design was abandoned due to flaws and inefficiencies. In 1954, German engineer Felix Wankel invented a new ...

To clear things up, Mazda never pioneered the Wankel rotary engine. German inventor and engineer ... In 1960, NSU and ...

“If you recall the Wankel, they have a triangular ... interested in the product for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems, which presently have engines that “are not designed for military fuels ...

The theory of the Wankel engine goes back to 1954 when Dr. Felix Wankel of Germany patented the epitrochoid principle of using a three-pointed rotor inside a two-lobe casing, thereby using rotary ...

Felix Wankel, a German engineer, created the Wankel engine. Compared to the standard engine configuration, the Wankel engine was typically lighter and had a smaller form factor. Because the rotors ...

Beyond that, the trail gets pretty cold. Some speculate it was designed and built by the Russian aircraft engine company Aviadvigatel. It currently produces a variety of jet engines, but it has ...

For a time, the Wankel rotary engine seemed like the future. In 1963, German automaker NSU—later absorbed into Audi—debuted the Wankel Spider, the first internal-combustion production car not ...