The Dornier Do-335 used a push-pull engine arrangement to reduce drag and eliminate asymmetric thrust. Flight testing showed speeds unmatched by other piston aircraft, along with strong climb and ...

Piston-engined fighters ruled the roost for thirty years. A brutal survival of the fittest ensured a rapid evolution of these characterful machines; the final fighters were over six times faster and ...

From 1945 to 1955, a British aeronautical company called Napier & Son produced not just one but two versions of an intricate hybrid piston engine, which they named the Napier Nomad. The post-World War ...