Aircraft propellers are broadly divided into fixed-pitch, which offer a performance compromise between climb and cruise, and variable-pitch types, which can adjust blade angle. Variable-pitch ...

When you picture a propeller-driven aircraft, you probably imagine a single engine plane with the propeller spinning at the front. There's a good reason for that, as the front-facing design has proven ...

Practical techniques for hand-propping and other manual engine starts when an electric starter isn't available. The post ...

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 ...