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 ...

At Castellon airport in eastern Spain, workers in hazmat suits wriggle through hatches of a nearly new Airbus jet, stripping out parts as if gutting a mechanical whale. Once a semi-deserted airport, ...

The asking price for used jet aircraft largely stabilized in September, moving up by less than 1 percent month to month ...

Bore and Stroke: 120.7 mm (4.75 in.) x 146.1 mm (5.75 in.) In April 1931, the Guiberson Diesel Engine Company of Dallas, Texas, displayed publicly for the first time its A-980 Diesel aircraft engine, ...

Bore and Stroke: 150 mm (5.9 in.) x 165 mm (6.5 in.) Dr. Hugo Junkers started development of two-stroke cycle diesel aircraft engines in 1911 at a small factory at Dessau, Germany. His diesel engines ...