You are correct that significantly more well-known Wankel design rotary engines are of the “flying ... design that was mainly used for aircraft. After looking at the design it’s clear why ...

Traditional Wankel engines feature a triangular rotor in a ... auxiliary power units (APUs), and sustainable aviation. For example, Alec shared an anecdote from his experience: “On a flight ...

Through the history of internal combustion engines, there has been plenty of evolution, but few revolutions. Talk of radically different designs always leads to a single name – Wankel.

Wankel engines first saw use in production cars as early as 1964 — and not even in a Mazda, but rather in an NSU. That little single-rotor powerplant quickly evolved into the more typical two ...

Mazda's Wankel rotary engine has always been unique in the automotive landscape as a mass-produced internal combustion engine that eschews such unsightly items as pistons, valves and camshafts.

The only cars in recent times to utilise a Wankel rotary engine have been Mazdas – the RX-8 being the most recent. But the revolutionary engine has made an appearance in plenty of other vehicles ...