Articles

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Articles

The pilot of the 1934 stratosphere flight

The Pioneer and the contested claim to America's first car

The president who could not retire the Model T: Edsel Ford and the road to the Model A

The private project behind Volvo

The race to Promontory: how Union Pacific built the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad

The racing brother behind the Duesenberg name

The Red Rose flight and a pioneering aviator's career

The road trip that ended aboard the Titanic

The safety lamp dispute

The small V6 that tax rules encouraged

The South Atlantic flight of 1922: a ditching, a rescue and two navigation instruments

The transatlantic flight Amelia Earhart did not fly

The Tu-244: a supersonic airliner that stayed on paper

The two record runs of Spirit of Australia and the boats that followed

The USAC rule gap behind the Mercedes-Benz 500I

The variable-incidence wing of the Supermarine Type 322

The V-BAT at sea: first deliveries, a hazard and a redesign

The Y1B-20 and the speed that was never flown

Thirty years between two helicopters: Igor Sikorsky

Three designs for one flying wing bomber

Three engines, each set against the one it replaced

Three Ferrari V8 designs, and the 2006 rule that brought the layout back

Three prototypes, several styling models and a V10 that outlived the P140

Toyota H8909: a bigger engine as the electric share shrank

Tracing the Wan Hu legend back to its first tellers

Two aero club prizes and the question of who flew first

Two Bugatti V12s: a turbocharged sports car engine and a naturally aspirated luxury one

Two companies, one name: how August Horch became Audi

Two days of drawings: Karl Probst and the Bantam jeep prototype

Two engines, one shaft: the Kawasaki Ki-64 experiment

Two locomotives under one class number: the E.402A and E.402B

Two Packard companies and a hometown legacy

Two rulebooks and a trainer: how regulation shaped the Sierra

Two sizes and one pushrod design behind the High Value V6

Two submarines that sank and what Wilhelm Bauer learned from them

Two tunings of the M196: the 2.5 litre R and the 3.0 litre S

Two VR8 engines on one crankshaft: how the Bugatti W16 is put together

What David Bushnell built after Turtle failed

What David Dunbar Buick built, and what he lost

What makes a street complete, and who pushes back

What Sophie Blanchard was actually first at

What the Air Force charged and what the press reported in the Kelly Flinn case

What the Ford FR9 specification list shows about a NASCAR V8

What the Ford Model A engine asked of its driver

What the Skyrocket taught designers about pitch-up

What the three numbers in the Mercedes 15/70/100 PS name meant

Where the MacPherson strut came from, and who used it first

Who built Ford's assembly line, and why Sorensen's title is disputed

Who was first among early Indian women pilots

Why 75 degrees: how the JNC1 V6 is shaped around the NSX handling