AvWeb’s Paul Bertorelli is in Mobile, Alabama, at the Teledyne Continental Motors headquarters for an alternative fuels summit. Here is the first of his reports: Teledyne Continental says it’s bullish on piston-engines that burn Jet A and today in the company’s Mobile skunk works, it took the wraps off the project for a group of [...]

With electric airplanes continuing to gain favor, the fifth annual Electric Aircraft Symposium was held recently, and here’s a video report from Kitplanes magazine editor Marc Cook. In case you haven’t been paying attention, there has been broad progress in battery technology and endurance, motor weight, and power and charging systems. This video summarizes the [...]

Well, not really. But we found this project while practicing a little work avoidance (ah, that would be research) here at the KITPLANES world headquarters. It is a nine-cylinder radial engine made up of Honda XR600 dirtbike cylinders and heads.