The Napier is a complicated extrapolation of a basic opposed-piston engine. Your average “engine” has cylinders and pistons ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines.

Can you name the largest piston-engined aircraft ever mass-produced? It’s the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, a behemoth with six radial piston ... service with the U.S. Air Force in 1948, the bomber ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design, from single-cylinder all the way up to radial twelve-cylinder engines.