Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Wright brothers designed and constructed the world's first practical fixed-pitch propeller and developed the ...

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 ...

This propeller was designed by the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (i.e. NASA’s predecessor) to reduce noise in light airplanes. The investigation was undertaken as an aid to the ...

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