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 ...

Nobody associates diesel engines with aviation, but Piper’s Seminole DX and Diamond’s DA50 RG demonstrate the potential of ...

What You Need to Know: In 2005, the Swedish diesel-electric submarine HMS Gotland participated in a naval exercise with the U.S. Navy off the coast of California. Despite operating against a ...

Hartzell Propeller has received an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) for its new three-bladed, lightweight Polaris composite propeller on diesel-powered Diamond DA40 NG aircraft. The Polaris ...

Summary: The U.S. Navy faces strategic and budgetary challenges, with increasing pressure to rethink its current reliance on costly, high-tech systems like nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft ...

Cessna has reached and agreement with Germany's Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) to collaborate on future programmes centred on the Thielert diesel engine. Although both companies are remaining ...

Austrian aircraft manufacturer Diamond Aircraft along with sister company Austro Engine will soon begin testing engines on sustainable aviation fuel. With most of its piston-engined aircraft powered ...

A joint venture by Chevron and W.R. Grace & Co. launched a hydroprocessing catalyst solution to produce renewable diesel and aviation fuel. A joint venture by Chevron and W.R. Grace & Co., Advanced ...

The 1999 simulated sinking of the USS Theodore Roosevelt by a “silent” Dutch diesel-electric submarine, HNLMS Walrus, proved that even advanced U.S. carriers are vulnerable to stealthy, conventional ...

Aircraft carriers are incredibly advanced vessels that represent the technological pinnacle of modern naval achievements. The United States Navy has many different types of aircraft carriers, all of ...