Propellers for piston-powered small airplanes primarily come in fixed-pitch, ground-adjustable, and constant-speed variants. Fixed-pitch propellers have a static blade angle, optimizing performance ...

Part 2 of Kenneth P. Katz's history of Hamilton Standard explores the development of the controllable-pitch propeller, one of ...

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 ...

The Air Force plans to fly its war-tested 1950s-era C-130 aircraft well into the 2030s and beyond through a sweeping, multi-pronged technical overhaul, designed to enable the propeller-flown aircraft ...