Each engine featured three-bladed variable-pitch propellers. Combined ... The twin vertical stabilizer design was found to reduce the aircraft’s handling and stability, and a single vertical ...

For a propeller-driven aircraft, variable pitch propeller (VPP) is widely used to create reverse thrust as air brake. However, because of the complexity of VPP mechanism and low controllability of ...

The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. T he Consolidated B-24 Liberator was arguably the most celebrated heavy bomber ...

Danish company Gori Propeller has been one of the foremost names in folding marine propellers used on sailboat auxiliary ...

Swiss marine giant ABB has spent more than a decade developing a radically different Voith-Schneider take on a marine ...

Natalie Fiorilli/Air Force) FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane that ...

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The final satellite tracking data came less than one minute later, at 3:20 p.m., at an altitude of 200 feet.The anti-icing system on the wings and tail of the 5-year-old turbo-propeller airplane ...

Juneau, Alaska – A commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska, killing all 10 people on board, was half a ton overweight for a trip into icy conditions, the National Transportation Safety ...