Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that ...

As boring as propeller designs may seem to the average person, occasionally there’s a bit of a dust-up in the media about a ‘new’ design that promises at least a few percent improvement in performance ...

Question: Why are the hurricane hunter planes only twin turboprops and not the regular fan jets that passenger planes use? Answer: The turboprops are more tolerant of hail than the jets. Airplanes ...

Years after the space race, propeller design remained a sea-trial-and-error endeavor: haul, tweak the props, relaunch, sea-trial, repeat. Finally, the U.S. Navy paid ...

If you have ever observed a propeller plane closely, you might have noticed the propeller is slightly angled to the right. The angled engine and propeller can seem jarring, considering symmetry is ...