Propeller-fan engines represent a fascinating development in aviation propulsion, combining the benefits of both jet & ...

Single-engine propeller planes are a common type of small aircraft. One of their unique traits are the angled engines, and ...

The Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano is a Brazilian aircraft, so you may be wondering why it's coming up in an article about U.S. military turboprop planes, and there's a good reason for that.

Propellers are designed to take a fluid, generally air or water, and use a rotating motion to push that fluid through. They're evolutions, in a sense, from the Archimedes' screw, which was likely ...

— M. Pengilly, Ohio. A: The propeller is rotated so that the prop wash (thrust) is directed forward. There are two advantages for the propeller aircraft. When the propeller is flattened out from ...

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Propeller Slices Through Airplane Window, Right at Passenger. New photo shows how close a woman came to death. By ABC News. November 9, 2014, 1:06 PM. NaN:NaN.

Meet the Reaper, the military's newest drone 00:44. A civilian contract employee who was killed when she walked into the moving propeller of an unmanned aircraft at a Southern California airfield ...

The marriage of the jet and piston engine was not ideal, but it did have its advantages, and reliability was just one of them. To increase the aircraft's loiter time, the jet could be idled or ...

NTSB Issues Warning of Prop Lock Out on Multiengine Aircraft In a new safety alert, the agency advises pilots to train for partial as well as full power loss in multiengine piston aircraft.