Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker custom-built a single-seat monoplane, featuring a fully functional synchronization gear that ...

Hartzell’s 5-blade composite propeller reduces aircraft weight by around 20 pounds total by using carbon fiber construction ...

Modern methods of propulsion offer ship operators a wide variety of efficient systems to move a vessel through the water. High levels of maneuverability and enhanced propeller geometry allow higher ...

Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that ...

Building a large ship requires a massive amount of engineering work. Even the smallest parts require lots of time and effort to design and build. Case in point: the ship's propeller. The prop has to ...

Boats are propelled forward by various power sources, such as human power, wind power, and internal combustion engines. Nowadays, even electric boats are coming onto the scene. Propulsion for ...

New photo shows how close a woman came to death. — -- A passenger who was injured when a propeller crashed through the window of a commuter airliner is lucky to have made it through the ordeal ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation announced it was investigating damage to a propeller on one of its ferries.