A constant-speed propeller can look simple from the cockpit, but the real safety story is hidden inside the hub, the governor ...

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 ...

Airplane propellers are broadly categorized into fixed-pitch, which are simpler and have a set blade angle, and non-fixed-pitch types (e.g., constant-speed, ground-adjustable, controllable-pitch) that ...

This is an opinion column. A new propeller design will likely start popping up on boats in Alabama and across the nation in the next few months—provided that the manufacturer eventually gets the price ...

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 ...

It's fairly common knowledge that when a supersonic aircraft approaches the sound barrier, what follows is the sonic boom. This transitory period between subsonic and supersonic, known as transonic ...

Mercury Racing has released a new propeller-slip calculator app for Apple or Android smartphones. The app has all the functionality of the calculator at mercuryracing.com, which makes propeller ...