For some, the concept of how a constant-speed propeller maintains the desired rpm can be a difficult one to grasp. What the FAA’s Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3B) has to say may help: “When an ...

Propeller design is one of the most complicated compromises in naval engineering, balancing thrust, cavitation, vibration, ...

JACKSON, Miss. – Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia air force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane ...

A containership transiting the Pacific Ocean lost hydraulic oil and propulsion after its propeller blade cracked, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A blade on ...

When one thinks of the average airplane, odds are that propellers are part of that mental image. They've been a crucial component of airplane construction from the moment air travel found its footing ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

Hartzell Propeller has received STC approval for a new 75-inch, three-bladed aluminum propeller for the Mooney M20M/TLS Bravo. This new scimitar-style prop significantly improves performance, offering ...

A C-130H Hercules from the Texas Air National Guard sits on the flightline at Hurlburt Field, Fla., in September 2017. The Air Force stopped flying 60 C-130Hs last month to replace pre-1971 propeller ...

The propeller blade was discovered wrapped in a potato sack in Coire a’Bhradain on the isle of Arran in Scotland. National Trust for Scotland During the recent ecological restoration of a Scottish ...

French defense contractor Naval Group and French elite engineering school Centrale Nantes have printed the first demonstrator of hollow propeller blades by metal additive manufacturing as part of the ...