Diesel engines are a rarity in aviation history, but they've carved out an interesting niche. While most aircraft rely on gasoline-powered piston engines or jet turbines, diesel has offered some ...

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that sail with the United States Navy are often thought of as nearly invincible. After all, the Navy's carriers are not only bigger and deadlier than the ones that ...

In this second number of the Smithsonian Annals of Flight, Robert B. Meyer Jr., curator and head of the flight propulsion division, tells the story of the first oil-burning engine to power an airplane ...

Energy analysts and environmentalists say diesel generators are expensive, noisy, highly polluting and exempt from Clean Air ...