Now that we have definitely arrived in the 21st Century, you'd think that the military with their substantial budgets would have only the latest and most fancy technology flying in the sky. They do, ...

Barring the smallest manned airplanes, most aircraft that are pulled around by a prop have variable pitch propellers. The reason for this is simple efficiency. Internal combustion engines are most ...

LEWES, Del., Feb. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Startup company Blainjett Aviation releases details of a breakthrough propeller technology called dynamic-variable-pitch. This dynamic-variable-pitch ...

There’s something to be said for simplicity when teaching people to fly or merely checking out in a new aircraft. Simplicity was Cirrus’ motivation behind this month’s feature, the combined throttle ...

The propeller component of this assembly was manufactured by Ole Flottorp in Chicago, Illinois for James B. Lund and R.D. Dwight, also of Chicago, who designed and constructed a mammoth tandem ...

The Tecnam P2010 is on course to receive European and US Part 23 certification this month. In May, I travelled to the Tecnam production facility in Capua, about 25km (16 miles) north of Naples, to fly ...