Propellers come in a lot of different sizes, shapes and designs, but they all serve one basic function: to convert an engines rotational force into thrust. They seem fairly simple-and fixed-pitch ...

Nepalese investigators believe an instructor captain inadvertently moved the propeller condition levers, instead of the flap selector, during an ATR 72-500’s approach to Pokhara, causing the ...

Hartzell Propeller Inc. has received an STC to install a newly designed, three-blade propeller system on Beech 58, 58A and G58 Barons that are factory equipped with TCM IO-520 and IO-550 engines. The ...

A fatal Piper PA-31P accident was significantly contributed to by the pilot's delayed feathering of a failed engine and the critical absence of specific, readily accessible propeller feathering ...

Until recently Hamilton has had a virtual monopoly of the propeller business. Lately, however, it and its most formidable rival, famed old Curtiss-Wright Corp., have been seeking another ...

HARTZELL PROPELLER compact series propellers (Docket No. 2000-NE-08-AD; Amendment 39-12741; AD 2002-09-08) - supersedes an existing AD, applicable to Hartzell models ...

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