As boring as propeller designs may seem to the average person, occasionally there’s a bit of a dust-up in the media about a ‘new’ design that promises at least a few percent improvement in performance ...

With a few exceptions, the modern stainless-steel propeller is created using the investment casting process, a metallurgical art that dates back more than 4,000 years. Also known as the lost wax ...

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Navy needed a carrier-based aircraft that could take off without the help of a catapult. What came out of that order was an Air Force plane with a propeller that spun ...