Most personal airplanes utilize air-cooled piston engines, valued for their lightweight design and continuous air supply, despite being an older technology compared to liquid-cooled alternatives.

Porsche could be reviving an old technology for its future internal combustion engines. New patent filings suggest Zuffenhausen’s finest may be resorting back to air-cooling for its future mid- and ...

Few things stay the same for long in the automotive world, yet Porsche's air-cooled flat-six engine defied the industry and hung around for well over three decades. It actually did a lot more than ...

There was a time, long ago, when passenger vehicles used to be much simpler than they are today. There were many downsides of this era, safety chief among them, but there were some perks as well. They ...

Air-cooled engines were once commonplace in the auto and moto industries. The most well-known were the Porsche flat six, VW flat four, Corvair, and numerous motorcycle engines, from BMW to ...

Porsche may have stopped building air-cooled 911s nearly three decades ago, but it clearly hasn’t stopped thinking about them. A newly published German patent reveals a fascinating cooling concept ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Cooling fins are an iconic feature of motorcycle design. These blades made their mark early, with their parallel lines encircling the cylinders of classic bikes from day one. Whether on the striking V ...