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LiquidPiston’s X-engine: the inside-out-Wankel engine wonder

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Alec Shkolnik, co-founder and CEO of LiquidPiston, to explore how ...
autoevolution

ICE for REx: LiquidPiston Turns the Wankel Engine Inside Out for a Perfect Range Extender

When I wrote about Mazda’s attempt to create the perfect range extender, I mentioned I wanted to examine the ideas that seem to be closer to that goal. Unfortunately, the Japanese company’s attempt ...
The Aviationist

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Fires Up Engine For The First Time Ahead Of First Flight

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power the X-59, ...
Flightglobal

NASA begins X-59 engine runs and now aims for 2025 first flight

The NASA team developing the X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet have fired up the aircraft’s GE Aviation F414-GE-100 powerplant for the first time, having started engine-run tests on 30 October. The ...
autoevolution

NASA Goes Off Script, Runs X-59 Engine Speed Hold Test Ahead of Schedule

As the first flight of NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft draws near, the agency seems not to waste any chance when it comes to testing the plane’s systems. Why, from time to time it even goes off ...