OSHKOSH - Among the thousands of aviation enthusiasts at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture convention this week are a few who are discussing an oft frowned-upon topic in the general ...

An editorial earlier this summer (“Don’t let children near Colorado’s airports suffer the same fate as kids in Flint, Mich.” July 11, 2023) focused on an important issue, but grossly oversimplified ...

Open the window and take a deep breath. Can you smell the clean air already? At the time of writing, the world has been free of leaded gasoline for five days now. Or ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday declared emissions from airplanes running on leaded aviation fuel a threat to public health — a first step toward stamping out a major source of metal pollution ...

Do you live near the Vancouver airport? Do you have children? Are you aware of the lead contamination from leaded gasoline used by prop planes? Piston aircraft are now the largest source of airborne ...

Engine knock, wherein fuel ignites unevenly along the cylinder wall resulting in damaging percussive shockwaves, is an issue that automakers have struggled to mitigate since the days of the Model T.

On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more quietly ...

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.—When American Airlines pilot Kent Wien goes flying for fun, his routine includes a long detour: a 90-mile round-trip flight from his base in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to this town in ...

Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over. The final holdout, Algeria, used up the last of its stockpile of leaded gasoline in July. That's according to the U.N. Environment ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. In 1921, General Motors engineers discovered that tetraethyl lead could make ...