Propellers are primarily divided into fixed-pitch, which offer a compromise between climb and cruise performance, and various adjustable-pitch types for optimized flight across different conditions.

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 ...

"There are a large number of woods used in the construction of airplane propellers and the selection of one suitable to meet the conditions in hand is not always an easy problem," writes Frank W.

Early aircraft often used rear-mounted propellers that pushed the airplane forward instead of pulling it through the air. Over time, that design nearly disappeared. This video explains how airflow, ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein was among the most difficult and abstract of philosophers. But that’s not how he started out. Wittgenstein was an early pioneer in aeronautical engineering. He published a treatise ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1357: Testing Airplane Propellers Episode: 1357 An airplane propeller test facility, twelve years before the Wright Brothers. Today, we test airplane ...

When you're at an airport and see propeller aircraft, you likely think it is powered by a piston engine. This is usually true among smaller planes, like the Cessa 172 Skyhawk and the Piper Archer, or ...

Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of ...

A World War II aircraft propeller, believed to be from a crashed Japanese warplane, has been preserved for decades in Mungya ...