The 44-year-old expert paraglider somehow managed to walk away from the bone-chilling mid-air collision with bumps and ...

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, ...

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.

A small propeller plane struck a flock of birds upon takeoff in Alaska — leaving gruesome and bloody stains across the hull. Mark Schwantes, a big game hunter and commercial fishing captain, was ...

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 ...

Propellers are critical, expensive aircraft components whose main enemies are corrosion and physical damage (nicks/gouges), which can lead to severe in-flight failures if neglected. Many pilots and ...

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 ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on the small plane making an emergency landing on Seventh Street in Phoenix.

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 ...