Editing Aircraft engine (section)

==Development history==
[[File:Wright Vertical Four-Cylinder Engine.jpg|thumb|right|Wright vertical 4-cylinder engine]]{{Incomplete list|date=March 2025}}{{See also|Timeline of jet power}}

* 1903: [[Manly-Balzer engine]] sets standards for later [[radial engine]]s.<ref name="e">{{cite book|title= Encyclopedia of the History of Technology |year=1990|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn= 978-0-203-19211-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofh00mcne/page/315 315]–21|url= https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofh00mcne|url-access= registration | editor= Ian McNeil}}</ref>
* 1910: [[Coandă-1910]], an unsuccessful [[ducted fan]] aircraft exhibited at Paris Aero Salon, powered by a piston engine. The aircraft never flew, but a patent was filed for routing exhaust gases into the duct to augment thrust.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gibbs-Smith |first=Charles Harvard |title=Aviation: an historical survey from its origins to the end of World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hxEOAQAAIAAJ |year=1970 |location=London |publisher=[[Her Majesty's Stationery Office]]|isbn=9780112900139 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gibbs-Smith |first=Charles Harvard |author-link=Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith | title=The Aeroplane: An Historical Survey of Its Origins and Development |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzcZAAAAIAAJ |year=1960 |location=London |publisher=[[Her Majesty's Stationery Office]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Winter |first=Frank H. |title=Ducted Fan or the World's First Jet Plane? The Coanda claim re-examined |journal=The Aeronautical Journal |publisher=Royal Aeronautical Society |volume=84 |date=December 1980|issue=839 |pages=408–416 |doi=10.1017/S0001924000031407 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkBWAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Henri Coandă and his technical work during 1906–1918 |last1=Antoniu |first1=Dan |last2=Cicoș |first2=George |last3=Buiu |first3=Ioan-Vasile |last4=Bartoc |first4=Alexandru |last5=Șutic |first5=Robert |language=ro |publisher=Editura Anima |location=Bucharest |isbn=978-973-7729-61-3|year=2010 }}</ref>
* 1914: [[Auguste Rateau]] suggests using exhaust-powered compressor – a [[turbocharger]] – to improve high-altitude performance;<ref name=e/> not accepted after the tests<ref>{{cite book|last=Guttman|first=Jon|title=SPAD XIII vs. Fokker D VII: Western Front 1918|year=2009|publisher=Osprey|location=Oxford|isbn= 978-1-84603-432-9|pages=24–25|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8TBE5nGmxbEC&pg=PA25|edition=1st}}</ref>
* 1918: [[Sanford Alexander Moss]] picks up Rateau's idea and creates the first successful turbocharger<ref name=e/><ref name=p>{{cite journal |last=Powell|first=Hickman|title=He Harnessed a Tornado...|journal=Popular Science|date=Jun 1941|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UycDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66}}</ref>
* 1926: [[Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar]] IV (S), the first series-produced supercharged engine for aircraft use.<ref name=a>{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=John D |title=The airplane: A history of its technology.|year=2002|publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|location=Reston, VA, USA |isbn= 978-1-56347-525-2|pages= 252–53|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FrvrkXYDCL8C&pg=PA253}}</ref><ref group="nb">The world's first series-produced cars with superchargers came earlier than aircraft. These were [[Mercedes (car)|Mercedes]] 6/25/40&nbsp;hp and Mercedes 10/40/65&nbsp;hp, both models introduced in 1921 and used Roots superchargers. {{cite book|title= The new encyclopedia of motorcars 1885 to the present|year= 1982|publisher= Dutton|location= New York|isbn= 978-0-525-93254-3|pages= [https://archive.org/details/newencyclopediao0000unse_v2r4/page/415 415]|edition= 3rd|editor= G.N. Georgano|editor-link= G.N. Georgano|url= https://archive.org/details/newencyclopediao0000unse_v2r4/page/415}}</ref>
* 2020: [[Pipistrel E-811]] is the first electric aircraft engine to be awarded a type certificate by [[EASA]]. It powers the [[Pipistrel Velis Electro]], the first fully electric EASA type-certified aeroplane.<ref name="E811_Flyer" />