In the early 1900s, the Roberts Motor Company of Sandusky, Ohio made a series of two-stroke engines for boats. With aviation gaining popularity,…
In 1936, the Italian aircraft manufacturer Officine Meccaniche Reggiane (Reggiane) branched out to produce aircraft engines. Initially, Reggiane produced Piaggio and FIAT engines under…
Robert Esnault-Pelterie was born in France on 8 November 1881. In the early 1900s, he began experimenting with a glider modeled after the…
Around 1930, the United States Army Air Corps (AAC) was interested in a 1,000 hp (746 kW), liquid-cooled aircraft engine. Somehow, the AAC…
In late 1926, Lt. Alford Joseph Williams approached the Packard Motor Car Company (Packard) regarding a high-power engine for a special aircraft project.…
In 1928, independent aircraft engine designer Frank Bernard Halford was contracted by D. Napier & Son (Napier) to design aircraft engines with a…
Frank Bernard Halford had been an aircraft engine designer since World War I. In 1923, he established himself as a for-hire consultant to…
Early in 1919, Montague Napier, President of D. Napier & Son Ltd., decided that his company should focus entirely on aircraft engines. The…
East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961. This is a photograph of an East German…
It’s the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t…